RePlacing Citizenship: AIDS Activism and Radical Democracy - Softcover

Brown, Michael P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572302224 ISBN 13: 9781572302228

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1997

Synopsis

This book uses an ethnographic study of one gay community's responses to AIDS to illustrate a radical democratic understanding of citizenship in contemporary society. Analyzing specific forms of AIDS organizing and activism in Vancouver, British Columbia from ACT UP to visiting buddy programs Brown explores the alternative spaces of political action that have formed in locations where state, civil society, and family overlap. Instead of the traditional view of citizenship as a formal, unchanging relationship between individual and state, he proposes that citizenship is more productively discerned in everyday acts and in the actual places where we live our lives. An important contribution to queer theory and theories of radical democracy, the book brings abstract concepts down to earth with its nuanced portrait of the survival strategies of a community under siege.

Honorable Mention, Myers Outstanding Book Awards

About this title

About the Author:

Michael P. Brown, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and attended Clark University and the University of British Columbia. His research interests are in urban political and cultural geography.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

Foreword, Cindy Patton
Preface
1. "New Spaces" of Radical Citizenship
2. AIDS and the Gay Community in Vancouver
3. Radical Citizenship in Civil Society?: ACTing UP in Vancouver
4. From Civil Society to State Apparatus: Shifting Spaces in the Voluntary Sector
5. From the Home to the State: "Just Being There" as a Buddy
6. From Family to Civil Society: Citizenship at the Quilt Display
7. Conclusion: Where Has the Citizen Gone?

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1572302224
• ISBN 13: 9781572302228
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 222