Producer Eva Djukic explains that it’s difficult to imagine a world in which AIDS isn’t normalised. This podcast tells the untold struggle that non-hegemonic classes went through to thrust AIDS onto the political agenda. Not everyone can remain anaesthetised to public order – for the suspect population it becomes a matter of life and death. This podcast explores the social and political pedagogies that defined and confined early AIDS activism and looks at the changing momentum in 1987 that led to the formation of ACT UP. It uses Resource Mobilisation and Collective Identity Theory to establish how the movement arose and how its tactics and ideologies were shaped.
The podcast challenges the dominant discourse which confines the movement’s legacies as catalysts for gay and lesbian rights. It seeks to establish that ACT UP’s greatest achievement was the deconstruction of the knowledge-power dichotomy which helped change global health policy, gave rise to ‘AIDS exceptionalism’ and led to the largest international commitment of resources to a health crisis in history.
Special Thanks to Dr Illan Wall, Associate Professor at the School of Law, Warwick University: For his consistent extensive support throughout the production of the podcast. And to Professor Patricia Siplon, Professor of Political Science and Director of Public Health, Saint Michael’s College Vermont: For participating as an interviewee and sharing her valuable expertise.
BBC Sounds < https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/ >
• Eurostar – Eurostar train arrives (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)
• Traffic – Night traffic – Trafalgar Square, London- 1972 (1R2, reprocessed) (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)
• Vocal & Heart Effects – Heart beating, 18 year old male’s heart (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)
• Crowds, Children & Footsteps – Industrial Dispute, chanting among marchers (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)
• Electrical Radiation – Radio Interference (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)
• Betting Shop – Atmosphere with public address (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)
• German Crowds- German crowd, exterior, mixed angry crowd (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)
• Manual Typewriter (Close Perspective) – Manual Typewriter: Close Perspective, fast typing (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)
• Exterior Crowds 1 – Crowd shouting, screaming, laughing – close perspective – 1972 (2C1, reprocessed) (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)
• Gongs & Cymbals – Gong rolls (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)
• Motor horns – American Police Siren being sounded (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)
• Skids – Car approach & skid (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)
• Motor Horns (electric) – Multitone Motor Horn, impatient blasts sounded (Electrical motor horn) (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)
• Pulleys, Winches & Chains – Chains rattling (Credit to: BBC Sound Effects)
Other
• Car Horn Doppler by PE865405
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Music
Free music archive < https://freemusicarchive.org/home >
• O Fortuna – MIT Concert Choir
• Patience – Sergey Cheremisinov
• Songs for a Sad Guitar – Rest you Sleeping giant
• Acoustic Mediation – Jason Shaw
• To live – Sergey Cheremisinov
• Breakthrough – Pictures of the Floating world
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• https://audionautix.com/Music/AcousticMeditation2.mp3
• The last Guardian – Dream Machine
• There is no way back – Ilya Marfin
• Circadian – Anatu
• The world light – Les Temps Modernes
• Radiant – Dream Machine
• Perfect Time – Svyat Ilin
