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AIDS Rumours, Vulnerability, and the Banana Wars—A View From Dominica

New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry

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Title AIDS Rumours, Vulnerability, and the Banana Wars—A View From Dominica
 
Creator Rose, Deidre
 
Subject Anthropology; Critical Medical Anthropology
HIV/AIDS; Caribbean; banana wars; rumours; narrative
 
Description This article examines rumours about HIV/AIDS in relation to the recent shift in Dominica’s economic status from an agricultural producer to a service provider. This shift has been the direct result of neo-liberal economic policies and decisions made by the international economic community. The virtual destruction of Dominica’s agricultural sector has forced the country to develop its tourist sector. The increased reliance on tourism and emigration as sources of income has led to anxieties about contact and contagion; specifically, people have become acutely aware of the social and health consequences that would result from this economic crisis. Through a close reading of AIDS rumors circulating in Dominica in the late 1990s and through the present, we can begin to better appreciate the connections between experiences of colonial exploitation, slavery, racism, current economic globalization, the impact of economic crisis on health, and local reactions to HIV/AIDS intervention strategies.
 
Publisher New Proposals Publishing Society
 
Contributor University of Toronto Open Fellowship
 
Date 2012-05-05
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
research-article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/2316
 
Source New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry; Vol 5, No 2 (2012); 8-19
1715-6718
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/2316/182537
 
Coverage Caribbean
Later 20th century to present
Fieldwork; Caribbean