Teaching AIDS The Cultural Politics of HIV Disease in India
This book approaches the subject of AIDS pedagogy by analysing the complex links between representation or discourse, ideology, power relations and practices of self, understood from the perspective of embodiment. While there is a fairly large amount of l
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Teaching AIDS
The Cultural Politics of HIV Disease in India
Teaching AIDS
Dilip K. Das
Teaching AIDS The Cultural Politics of HIV Disease in India
Dilip K. Das Department of Cultural Studies English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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This book is dedicated to the memory of my father, Professor Sadhu Charan Das, whose passion for learning I have always tried to emulate, and my mother, Mrs. Annapurna Das, who always supported me in the effort. I also dedicate this book to my teacher, Professor Prafulla C. Kar, and to Mrs. Mokshada Kar, who have constantly inspired me in my life and academic career.
Acknowledgments
The idea of working on the cultural politics of HIV/AIDS first came to me in 1998, when Professor Prafulla Kar asked me to review Thomas Yingling’s AIDS and the National Body for the Journal of Contemporary Thought. I owe to him the inspiration for this book. My work on the AIDS epidemic was enabled by a year’s sabbatical that I spent at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2002–2003, as a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow. I am grateful to Professor Paula Treichler and the Institute of Culture and Communication, UIUC, for hosting me and providing all facilities. I also thank the United States Educational Foundation in India and the Fulbright Foundation for sponsoring my sabbatical. In 2005, I received a South Asia Regional Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, New
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