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Call for Papers - HIV/AIDS in its third decade:
renewed critique in social and cultural analysis

A special issue of Social Theory and Health (2009)

Guest editors: Eric Mykhalovskiy (York University, Toronto, Canada) and 
Marsha Rosengarten (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK).

The identification of HIV/AIDS nearly thirty years ago occasioned important 
developments in the social and cultural analysis of illness and disease. 
Critical analyses of science and its relationship to activism, research on 
illness experience, stigma, sexuality and identity, and critiques of the 
limits of behavioural science were among the foci of a remarkable period of 
innovation in social thought and research.

As HIV/AIDS nears three decades of intervention, a series of new challenges 
are apparent. These include, for example, how to conceptualize and respond 
to transformations in the bodily experience of HIV, the 
pharmaceuticalization of life, the globalization of clinical scientific 
research on HIV/AIDS, the growing disparities in health and access to care 
for people living with HIV both within developed countries and between the 
global North and global South, a perceived crisis in the prevention of HIV, 
the growing trend toward the integration of HIV treatment and prevention, 
the nature and implication of shifts in the gendered and racialized 
representation of HIV/AIDS, and transformations in the relationship of 
science and activism.

Alongside these transformations, shifts have occurred in the social study 
of HIV infection. Most notably, HIV research from behavioural and health 
sciences perspectives has continued to develop and there are signs of a 
burgeoning interest in community-based research on HIV/AIDS.   However, 
critical social and cultural approaches to the study of HIV/AIDS have not 
fared as well. Particularly missing have been the application of 
contemporary social theory to critical, social analyses of HIV and 
transformations of social theory itself to take into account emerging 
empirical research.

In this special issue of Social Theory and Health we invite papers written 
from a critical social science or cultural studies perspective on the 
issues facing the HIV/AIDS field nearly three decades since initial 
identification of the virus. In keeping with the journal's 
interdisciplinary perspective, contributions from a range and/or 
combination of disciplines including, for example, sociology, anthropology, 
cultural studies, history and critical psychology are encouraged.   We 
particularly encourage papers that extend the scope of critical analyses of 
HIV by engaging with contemporary debates and issues in social theory. Both 
theory and theoretico-empirical papers are invited.

Contributors are welcome to approach the guest editors with initial 
inquiries about content or style. Please visit the journal website: 
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/sth/index.html   and click on 
'Instructions for authors' for guidelines on paper formatting and length.

Submissions should be sent electronically in Word format to both:
Eric Mykhalovskiy ( [log in to unmask] ) and Marsha Rosengarten ( 
[log in to unmask] )

Final date for submissions is July 11 2008.


Natalie Warner
Centre Administrator
Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP)
Department of Sociology
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
London
SE14 6NW
Tel: +44 (0)20 7919 7731
Fax: +44 (0)20 7919 7713
Web: www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp

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