{"product_id":"at-risk-indian-sexual-politics-and-the-global-aids-crisis-9781503627529","title":"At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world's biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000. Though a crisis at this scale never fully materialized, global public health institutions, donors, and the Indian state initiated a massive effort to prevent it. HIV prevention programs channeled billions of dollars toward those groups designated as at-risk—sex workers and men who have sex with men. \u003ci\u003eAt Risk\u003c\/i\u003e captures this unique moment in which these criminalized and marginalized groups reinvented their \"at-risk\" categorization and became central players in the crisis response. The AIDS crisis created a contradictory, conditional, and temporary opening for sex-worker and LGBTIQ activists to renegotiate citizenship and to make demands on the state. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorking across India and Kenya, Gowri Vijayakumar provides a fine-grained account of the political struggles at the heart of the Indian AIDS response. These range from everyday articulations of sexual identity in activist organizations in Bangalore to new approaches to HIV prevention in Nairobi, where prevention strategies first introduced in India are adapted and circulate, as in the global AIDS field more broadly. Vijayakumar illuminates how the politics of gender, sexuality, and nationalism shape global crisis response. In so doing, she considers the precarious potential for social change in and after a crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAt Risk\u003c\/i\u003e is feminist transnational sociology at its best! Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this book tells a richly textured, and often surprising, story about how Indian sex workers and LGBTQ people impacted the terrains of sexual politics amidst the AIDS crisis. Vijayakumar deftly illuminates what the global South has to teach us about sexual epidemics, activism, and the transformation of sexual cultures.\"—Jyoti Puri, Simmons University\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAt Risk\u003c\/i\u003e offers the near-historical, ethnographic critique of sexuality politics and the HIV\/AIDS crisis in India that we need. Vijayakumar shows in rich detail how 'ideas of sexuality are the \"fulcrum\" for constructing difference around race, caste, gender, and class,' in part by seriously examining the transnational linkages between Indian and African sex workers' rights movements during the 1990s and 2000s. This book is a critique of a moment that is critical for understanding a uniquely global health crisis, and what it revealed about the idea of 'India' in a uniquely changing world.\"—Svati P. Shah, University of Massachusetts, Amherst\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eAt Risk\u003c\/i\u003e] provides an excellent overview of not only the AIDS epidemic in India but also its intersections with sexual politics at home as well as its linkages to the global AIDS field. The work will prove to be useful for anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and any scholar interested in the sexual politics of AIDS in India.\"—Arnav Bhattacharya, \u003ci\u003eH-Sci-Med-Tech\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Reading [\u003ci\u003eAt Risk\u003c\/i\u003e] at a time when global discourses of COVID-19 continue to dominate public health and media narratives has provided an important frame for critically thinking about global inequalities and their long- and short-term impacts on the lives of people. The book will make for interesting reading for gender and sexuality scholars and scholars interested in critically understanding the everyday state as well as contemporary India and its global dynamics.\"—Shannon Philip, \u003ci\u003eContributions to Indian Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAt Risk\u003c\/i\u003e expands the possibilities of decolonizing American sociological scholarship... to build theory from global sites that have implications beyond their immediate coordinates. Particularly now, as we emerge from the reluctant aftermath of another global pandemic, and—perhaps unrelated—deal with new sexual crises produced by the state that implicate gendered bodies, these findings feel atemporal, omnipresent, and urgent.\"—Swethaa Ballakrishnen, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eAt Risk\u003c\/i\u003e,Vijayakumar offers an insightful, ethnographically rich account of how AIDS funding changed the landscape of sex worker activism and related state bureaucracy in India.\"—Tara Gonsalves, \u003ci\u003eBritish Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  2. India and the Specter of African AIDS\u003cbr\u003e  3. From Containment to Incorporation\u003cbr\u003e  4. At-Risk Citizens\u003cbr\u003e  5. Risky Selves\u003cbr\u003e  6. Making It Count\u003cbr\u003e  7. India in Africa\u003cbr\u003e  8. 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