ANTHROPOLOGY OF ACTIVISM:

NOTES ON MEMORY AND CONTEMPORARY ACTIVISM IN HIV/AIDS IN PARAÍBA

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ABSTRACT:
This essay arises from a doctoral research in Anthropology entitled “This activism belongs to all of us”: activism, memory, and identity of the anti-AIDS movement in Paraíba. This research addresses HIV/AIDS activism in Paraíba today, within a scenario of chronic disease and health crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Field research is qualitative, in which data production takes place through participation in activities of the movement, interviews with a semi-open script, data analysis through discursive practices, delineation of categories, association of ideas and dialogical interanimation. In this essay, we treat current HIV/AIDS activism from an interface between basic concepts found in Turner, Ingold and Fabian, respectively lived experience, bringing things back to life, and time and temporality. The essay sought to answer (1) if
HIV/AIDS activism fits into a lived experience, whether (2) if HIV/AIDS activism brings things back to life; and (3) what is the generational impact on activism.


KEYWORDS: AIDS. Activism. Time. Anthropology.

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Newspaper report photograph in August 1985. Source: Jornal Correio da Paraíba.

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2024-11-18