6 research outputs found
Pathologies of Care: HIV Treatment and Prevention in Turkey
No full textUniversity of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. 2023. Major: Feminist Studies. Advisors: Susan Craddock, Karen-Sue Taussig. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 200 pages.This dissertation investigates the ambivalent, elusive, and contradictory nature of care that produces abandonment and harm but dialectically gives rise to vital modes of belonging and carefulness. In Turkey, the number of HIV diagnoses has increased by 620%, and AIDS- related deaths have more than doubled over the last decade. Yet, formal regimes of HIV care block access to testing, condoms, and pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis; impose monogamy as a scientifically legitimate prevention method; deny (health)care to LGBTQI+s and people living with HIV; and refuse sexual health education. This dissertation draws on twenty months of embedded ethnography, public and private archives, medical records, newspaper articles, official government reports, and fifty in-depth interviews with governmental, nongovernmental, medical, and pharmaceutical sector workers. Through the concept of pathogenic care, this investigation uncovers how conservative and neoliberal ethics and mechanisms of public health aggravate the conditions of those living with HIV and increase the risk of transmission for others, especially the marginalized, who are socio- immunologically more vulnerable. In other words, this research demonstrates that HIV care has become pathological in Turkey by facilitating a joint epidemic of HIV and HIVfobi, i.e., status-based stigma and discrimination. By setting a sterile distance between themselves and the so-called “contagious others,” formal regimes of HIV care create zones of abandonment where particularly queer and trans communities are left vulnerable to HIV transmission and socio-medical discrimination. This study makes three central arguments with important theoretical and public health implications: (1) the Turkish HIV epidemic is not an inevitable result of dissident/terrorist sexualities, foreign lifestyles, or human immunodeficiency virus; (2) public health mechanisms, institutions, and actors in place to provide HIV treatment and prevention have become unexpected vectors of HIV transmission under neoliberal Islam; (3) the fear of medical and social contagion and the consequent impulse to immunize life against “risky” others lie at the center of Turkey’s failed public health response to the growing HIV epidemic.Atuk, Tankut. (2023). Pathologies of Care: HIV Treatment and Prevention in Turkey. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/258775
The Volatile Possibilities and Empty Gestures of Care Under Military Occupation
No full textThe Occupied Clinic could hardly be any timelier. Kashmir has been under siege by the Indian national government for thirty years, and its residents disenfranchised. In 2019, in part to suppress the region’s independence movement, Narendra Modi and his BJP made international headlines when they stripped Jammu and Kashmir of its autonomy. In a land that lives under continuous military occupation and has witnessed countless curfews, Saiba Varma asks, ‘what kind of care leaves people in pieces?’. The Occupied Clinic is the result of arduous fieldwork conducted under occupation in the Kashmir Valley, during the period 2009-2016. In this eloquent ethnography of clinic and its militarization under siege, Varma raises critically, ‘what is possible—clinically, ethically, socially, and politically—under occupation? What forms of care?’
The social costs of quantum futures
No full textJune2025School of Humanities, Arts, and Social SciencesThis thesis defines quantum anticipatory regimes and traces their genealogy from the Cold War. It argues that Cold War computing culture and expert communities developed ways to “technologically manage” the future, using computer-generated knowledge to produce simulated threats that empowered the government to mobilize uncertainty as an anticipatory power. Past American expert anticipatory regimes persisted beyond the Cold War through a cultural acceptance of computers as experts and algorithms as national infrastructure and as strategic resource. This thesis, therefore, anticipates and theorizes the evolution of expert anticipatory regimes in the promissory image of quantum computing futures. Furthermore, it posits gentrification as the evolutionary process of how American anticipatory regimes create their futures through technology. Through a discourse analysis of press releases, news coverage, and public events hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and the city of Chicago, it highlights how these entities imagine their own quantum futures and interprets the social cost of these futures as a function of gentrification, where marginalized communities and alternatives visions of the future are displaced. Ultimately, the desire and capital push for quantum computing futures is not just a national infrastructure project, but a conceptual restructuring of the guiding epistemology in how this country perceives the future. Quantum anticipatory regimes are the next evolution in how this country manages perceptions of what the future should be.M
\u27Monkeypox, where is your rage?\u27: The racialization, sexualization, and securitization of global health
No full textWith the purposes of identifying the underlying challenges of global and public health governance of outbreaks, this paper explores three key themes that emerged in response to the 2022 mpox epidemic: the belated change of disease nomenclature from monkeypox to mpox; the classification of mpox as a sexually transmitted infection (STI); and the unpreparedness of health agencies to vaccinate impacted populations. The paper makes the case that, because of the global and public health tensions arising from racialized nomenclatures, sexualized classifications, biosecuritized borders, and monopolized vaccines, national and international agencies failed in providing an adequate and comprehensive response to the latest mpox pandemic, which contributed further to the pathologization of already vulnerable and stigmatized population groups
Examining stage plays of Hüseyin Cavid titled Uçurum and Şeydal
No full textHüseyin Cavid, 20. yüzyıl başlarından itibaren faaliyet göstermeye başladığı edebi kişiliği yazarlığı ve şairliğiyle Azerbaycan sanat ve edebiyat hayatına büyük katkılar yapmış önemli bir şahsiyettir. Doğu toplumları içinde meydana getirilen ilk manzum piyesin de yazarıdır. İçinde yaşadığı toplumun aksaklıklarını gerek mizah yoluyla gerekse dram yoluyla ortaya koymaktan çekinmeden sahne eserleri vasıtasıyla halkını bilinçlendirmeyi gaye edinmiştir. Bu çalışma Hüseyin Cavid'in Uçurum ve Şeyda isimli dram türündeki piyeslerinin Azerbaycan Türkçesinden Türkiye Türkçesine aktarılması ve muhteva bakımından incelenmesinden ibarettir. Hüseyin Cavid'in bahsedilen iki piyesinde Azerbaycan 'ın 20. yüzyıl başlarındaki toplum yapısına ve hayat tarzına ışık tutulmuş, toplumsal gelişmenin önünde engel olarak görülen bazı yanlış tutumlar gerçekçi bir üslupla tenkit edilmiştir.Hüseyin Cavid is an important personality as an author and poet who contributed to Azerbaijani art and literature which he was actively producing since the beginning of the 20th century. He is also the writer of the first poetic stage play created in Eastern communities. He aimed at raising awareness of his community through stage plays without hesitation to elicit flaws of the community he lived in through both humour and drama. This study consists of translating Hüseyin Cavid's stage plays in the type of drama titled "Uçurum" and "Şeyda" from Azerbaijani Turkish to Turkey Turkish and examining their contents. In two stage plays in question, Hüseyin Cavid sheds light on community structure and life style of Azerbaijan in the beginning of the 20th century and criticizes some attitudes which have been perceived as impediment to development, in a realistic manner
