Frowd, Philippe M. orcid.org/0000-0002-1368-1154 (2014) State personhood, abjection and the United States' HIV travel ban. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. pp. 860-878. ISSN 0305-8298
Abstract
This article understands the United States' 23-year ban on travellers with HIV/AIDS through the lens of state personhood metaphors and the concept of abjection. Using insights from queer theory as a critique of sovereignty, it argues that the practices and discourses that brought about and sustained the ban, from 1987 until its lifting in 2010, relied upon implicit understandings of the state as a national body free from disease. Having shown the heuristic power of metaphors of the state as a body or person, the article goes on to argue that this identification of the American state as a homeostatic and healthy space facilitates the securitisation of mobility and public health and in turn the exclusion of people living with HIV (PLHIV). This rejection of PLHIV, sustained by conservative political discourse as much as by medical screening, nevertheless shows the impossibility of the state attaining its desired purity against HIV/AIDS and its associated sexual and racial imaginaries. The article concludes with an empirical overview of the context of the travel ban through to its lifting in 2010 and a discussion of the role of queer theory as a critique of state sovereignty.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2014. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | Abjection,Borders,HIV/AIDS,Queer theory,State personhood |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 24 May 2016 10:55 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 12:41 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829814541321 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0305829814541321 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:100076 |
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