Living with HIV/AIDS in Peripheral Contexts: Articulations and Modes of Thinking about Political Subjectivities

Abstract

This article investigates how categories of differentiation such as sexuality, generation, social class, and place are embodied in life trajectories of people living with HIV/aids in cities in the interior of Brazil’s Northeast. We explore the articulation between notions of personhood and practices of care and knowledge considering the constitution of political subjectivities. The objective is to broaden the view on processes of social suffering, sexuality, and health and their complex relationships that confer meaning and place to HIV, care, illness and their economies of knowledge.

HIV/AIDS; Experience with illness; Sexuality; Generation; Place