A Tiny War in a Human: aids, Art, and Protest in Poland

IF 0.2 Q2 HISTORY East Central Europe Pub Date : 2023-04-24 DOI:10.30965/18763308-50010004
Aleksandra Gajowy
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Unearthing sociocultural histories of hiv/aids in Poland, this article focuses on heretofore silenced and dismissed narratives of the crisis and the ways in which hiv/aids in Poland posed a challenge to socialist rule, but also to Polish society and the state in the early days of neoliberal democracy. I focus on the first decade of the aids epidemic in Poland (1985–1996) to investigate how narratives of the crisis made palpable people’s anxieties about the changing political, economic, and social conditions, gentrification, as well as the linear logic of progress encapsulated in the desire to catch up with the West. I analyze sociocultural responses to the crisis, specifically artistic interventions, underground gay, lesbian and aids activism, public demonstrations against the state’s inept management of the epidemic, the lack of media coverage, and urban legends circulating in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In doing so, I examine how the intersection of public discourse of the aids crisis and the changing political landscape played out on the level of a body with aids through the biopolitical logic of “biological citizenship.”
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人类的微小战争:艾滋病、艺术与波兰的抗议
本文发掘了波兰hiv/aids的社会文化历史,重点关注迄今为止被沉默和忽视的危机叙述,以及hiv/aids在波兰对社会主义统治的挑战,以及对新自由主义民主早期波兰社会和国家的挑战。我把重点放在波兰艾滋病流行的头十年(1985-1996),以调查危机的叙述如何使人们对不断变化的政治、经济和社会条件、士绅化以及在追赶西方的愿望中蕴含的进步的线性逻辑的焦虑变得明显。我分析了社会文化对危机的反应,特别是艺术干预、地下同性恋和艾滋病行动主义、反对国家对流行病管理不力的公众示威、媒体报道的缺乏以及20世纪80年代末和90年代初流传的城市传说。在此过程中,我考察了艾滋病危机的公共话语和不断变化的政治景观是如何通过“生物公民”的生物政治逻辑,在艾滋病身体的层面上发挥作用的。
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