Entre biosociabilidad y biolegitimidad: sociabilidad, tratamiento y activismo en una asociación de personas que viven con VIH.

Juan José Gregoric

doi:10.48160/18517072re42.596

Authors

Juan José Gregoric Universidad de Buenos Aires

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re42.596

Keywords:

HIV-AIDS, antiretroviral treatment, biosocioability, biolegitimacy

Abstract

In this work, we analyze the activism of people affected by HIV/AIDS in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, focusing on the subjectivities created through experiences of suffering and treatment. Firstly, we argue that "peer groups" of people with HIV are spaces of sociability where categories of identification and differentiation are generated. Within these groups, forms of control over individual practices and imperatives for treatment adherence emerge, appropriating medical categories. Secondly, we contend that bodily disruption experienced during suffering and treatment creates a permanent self-observation, shaped by and expressed through biomedical definitions and technologies, while simultaneously questioning the premises of "adherence" to antiretroviral therapies. Finally, we assert that bodily suffering legitimizes novel demands that can be understood in terms of biosociability and biolegitimacy.

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