Titre : | The utility of queer theory in reconceptualising ageing in HIV-positive gay men (2015) |
Auteurs : | Maurice Nagington |
Type de document : | Article de revue |
Dans : | Aporia (n°4, Vol.7, 01/10/2015) |
Langues: | Anglais |
Thème : |
[Thésaurus BDSP] Organisme vivant > Microorganisme > Virus > Rétrovirus > VIH [Thésaurus BDSP] Pathologie > Immunopathologie > Sida > Séropositivité [Thesaurus Rockefeller] PERSONNE AGEE [Thesaurus Rockefeller] SEXUALITE > HOMOSEXUALITE [Thesaurus Rockefeller] SIDA [Thesaurus Rockefeller] VIEILLESSE > VIEILLISSEMENT |
Mots-clés: | Ageing, gay men, HIV, queer theory |
Résumé : | With the advent of effective anti-viral regimes ageing with HIV has become an increasingly common phenomenon, gay men being the largest sub-group. It has been examined from multiple academic perspectives, the most prominent of which are medical and sociological research. Within this literature HIV as well as a gay identity has been described as causing “accelerated ageing”. However, any such acceleration has always been considered to be occurring in relation to the normative standards of heterosexuality and/or an HIV negative status, leaving HIV positive gay men viewed as somehow deficient to their HIV negative heterosexual counterparts. A queer theoretical approach is adopted to explore the potential ways in which ageing with HIV as a gay man could be conceptualised beyond the ideas of heteronormative deficiencies. In particular queer theoretical readings of vulnerability, temporality and kinship are explored to provide a theoretical basis for future empirical work into this topic. |
En ligne : | http://www.oa.uottawa.ca/journals/aporia/articles/2015_10/Nagington.pdf |
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