After the Exception: HIV/AIDS Beyond Salvation and Scarcity. Issue 2 (25th May 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ingram, Alan
• Is Part Of: Antipode. Volume 45:Issue 2(2013:Mar.)
• Page Start: 436
• Page End: 454
• Publication Date: 2012-05-25
• Subjects: Geography -- Periodicals; 910.5
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01008.x
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0066-4812

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p> <bold>Abstract: </bold> Access to treatment for HIV/AIDS became a flashpoint for global justice struggles in the late 1990s. An expanding international response, premised to a significant extent on the idea of HIV/AIDS as an exceptional global problem, has since delivered treatment, care and prevention to growing numbers of people. HIV/AIDS exceptionalism, however, has increasingly been questioned, many aspects of the response have been critiqued and donor funding has started to decline. I argue that, having been framed as an exceptional humanitarian emergency, the question of HIV/AIDS as a global problem is increasingly located within a discourse of scarcity. Tracking the growing entanglement of global HIV/AIDS relief with neoliberal governmentality and the emergence of something I term therapeutic neoliberalism, I argue that the shift from a rationality of salvation to one of administration poses new challenges for global health activism. Questioning the discourse of scarcity remains essential to an alternative global health agenda.</p> </abstract>