Description
Understanding and responding to the epidemic of HIV in the Caribbean context requires a multidimensional approach. Drawing together and impressive array of academics, activist scholars, educations specialists and frontline service providers, Sexuality, Social Exclusion and Human Rights examines some of the key drivers of HIV and AIDS by exploring risk, vulnerability, power, culture, sexuality and gender.
The primary challenge is first to recognise and come to grips with the circumstances in which HIV is transmitted in order to construct the policies and practices in response. Divided into four sections: Human Rights, Citizenship and Social Exclusion; Rethinking Communication; Reconceptualizing Sex; and Policy and Macro-Perspectives, the contributors to this volume raise controversial issues not formally discussed in the Caribbean context but which require confrontation to arrest the spread of HIV.
This volume provides a unique perspective and analysis of the Caribbean response and how the inclusion of many different sectors in society and an interdisciplinary, rather than segregated multidisciplinary approach, can effectively address the spread of HIV and AIDS in the region.
About the Author
Christine Barrow is professorial fellow, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indies, Cave Hill and campus chair, UWI HARP, Cave Hill.
Marjan de Bruin is Director and Senior Lecturer at the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC), University of the West Indies, Mona and Deputy Chair of UWI HARP, Mona.
Robert Carr is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator Graduate Programme Unit, Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC), University of the West Indies, Mona and Executive Director Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC).
Contents
Foreword by Brendan Bain – Regional Coordinator, the University of the West Indies HIV/AIDS Response Programme (UWI HARP)
Preface by Sir George Alleyne – Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean
HUMAN RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION
- Authorized Sex: Same-Sex Sexuality and Law in the Caribbean – Tracy Robinson
- Drugs Obscure the Human Rights Issues for Drug Users: Are Demons and Jumbies Rights Holders? – Marcus Day
- Charting a Legal Response to HIV and AIDS and Work from the Perspective of Vulnerability – Rose-Marie Antoine
- Social Exclusion, Citizenship and Rights: Grappling with Vulnerability in the Epidemic of HIV – Robert Carr
RETHINKING COMMUNICATION
- Speaking Sexuality: The Heteronationalism of MSM – Andil Gosine
- Positively Limited: Gender, Sexuality and HIV and AIDS Discourses in Barbados – David Murray
- Communication and HIV: Multi-Dimensional Frustration – Marjan de Bruin
- Tackling the Social Complexities of HIV and AIDS: Understanding the Social Roots of the Epidemic and Learning from Developments in HIV Communication – Robin Vincent
RECONCEPTUALIZING SEX
- Centering Praxis in Policies and Studies of Caribbean Sexuality – Kamala Kempadoo
- Afro-Surinamese Women’s Sexual Culture and the Long Shadows of the Past – Gloria Wekker
- Contradictory Sexualities: From Vulnerability to Empowerment for Adolescent Girls in Barbados – Christine Barrow
- How Risk and Vulnerability Become ‘socially embedded’: Insights into the Resilient Gap between Awareness and Safety in HIV – David Plummer
POLICY AND MACRO-PERSPECTIVES
- Risking Education: Placing Young MSM in the HIV Prevention Equation – R. Anthony Lewis
- HIV and AIDS, Vulnerability and the Governance Agenda: A Critical Perspective on Barbados – Philip Nanton
- HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean: An Assessment of the Risk Environment – Roger McLean, Karl Theodore, Caroline Allen, Martin Franklin and Christine Laptiste
