"Representing and Governing HIV/AIDS in China": thematic issue for International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies

Call for Papers

This thematic issue of IJAPS (scheduled for publication in January 2012) calls for submissions for an interdisciplinary collection on the theme of "representing and governing HIV/AIDS in China". The issue aims to bring together original articles from diverse disciplinary areas to engage in a timely dialogue on how HIV/AIDS is represented and governed in China and how such representations and techniques of governance are communicated via the mass media. This special issue addresses itself specifically to the
relations of power and representation in the above context. A comparative analysis is also welcome.

With the largest infected population in the Asia-Pacific, China has ramped up HIV/AIDS campaigning in recent years, with the help of non-governmental organisations. From public health campaigns and media education programs in the official media, to individual initiatives asserting rights and community endeavours for self-help-utilizing both old and new media communication technologies-the issues of representation and governance are key to our understanding of HIV/AIDS in China. A range of questions have arisen in our investigation:

- The evolution of Chinese public health campaigns;
- The role of HIV/AIDS in China's public health reform;
- The impacts on Chinese consumers of media representations of the virus;
- The implications of alternative media (e.g. digital video, blogging,
twittering, etc) in HIV/AIDS campaigns at the grassroots;
- The relationship between HIV/AIDS activism and new social movements;
- Issues related to gender and sexuality-how they are represented and /or
governed via various media, and in what ways are they uniquely Chinese;
- The state/non-state (including NGOs) relations in a time of AIDS;
- Issues related to identity, subjectivity, and body politics
- HIV/AIDS campaigns across the Taiwan Strait, and/or experience from Hong
Kong
- HIV/AIDS in visual culture
- The socio-graphic history of HIV/AIDS

Submissions are not limited to the above areas of enquiry.

Abstracts of no more than 500 words, with a short bio, should be sent to the guest editor Dr Haiqing Yu (h.yu@unsw.edu.au), University of New South Wales, Australia, by August 31, 2010 for advice on whether a full paper is required for the reviewing process. Full contributions of 4000-6000 words, prepared in IJPAS style, are to be submitted by March 2011.

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Dr Haiqing Yu
Asian Studies Convenor | Lecturer of contemporary Chinese media and culture | Associate member of Journalism and Media Research Centre School of Languages and Linguistics| University of New South Wales| Sydney NSW 2052 Australia Ph 61 2 9385 2349 | Fax 61 2 9385 2666 Email: h.yu@unsw.edu.au | Web: http://languages.arts.unsw.edu.au/staff/haiqing-yu-733.html