ACT UP's fight against AIDS (Book and Podcast)

ACT UP’s fight against AIDS (Book and Podcast)

Deborah B. Gould

Type

Books, Audio
Region

North America
Practice

Coaching, Public narrative, Relationship building, Team structure, Strategy, Action
Language

English

Learn all about ACT UP's fight against AIDS using emotions and direct action from the book, Moving Politics: Emotions and ACT UP's Fight Against Aids and by listening to an NPR podcast with Sarah Schulman.

Contents

Introduction

Learn all about ACT UP’s fight against AIDS using emotions and direct action from the book, Moving Politics: Emotions and ACT UP’s Fight Against Aids and by listening to an NPR podcast with Sarah Schulman.

Moving Politics: Emotions and ACT Up’s Fight Against AIDS (Book)
Book Description

Emotion plays a fundamental role in health activism. From anger to hope, pride to shame, and solidarity to despair, feelings played a significant part in ACT UP’s provocative style of protest, which included raucous demonstrations, die-ins, and other kinds of street theater. Detailing the movement’s public triumphs and private setbacks, Moving Politics is the definitive account of ACT UP’s origin, development, and decline as well as a searching look at the role of emotion in health activism.

“Moving Politics is not just a rich and rigorous history of ACT UP. It is also that rarest of works: one that simultaneously breaks new empirical ground while challenging our more general conceptual understanding of the subject matter. Quite simply, it will be hard for social movement scholars following Gould to ignore the emotional dimensions and dynamics of struggle.” — Doug McAdam, Stanford University

“In Moving Politics Deborah Gould offers the first full-fledged history of the development of AIDS activism in the United States. In doing so, Gould situates AIDS activism within social movement theory and demonstrates the complex relation between reason and emotion in activist movements.” — Douglas Crimp, University of Rochester

Author information

Deborah Gould is an associate professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz (and affiliated faculty in Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Politics)

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The direct action of ACT UP helped end AIDS (Podcast)

Introduction

Sam revisits his 2021 conversation with Sarah Schulman about ACT UP. The organization united a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis. In Schulman’s book, Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993, she draws from nearly 200 interviews with ACT UP members to document the movement’s history and explore how the group’s activism transformed the way the media, the government, corporations and medical professionals talked about AIDS and provided treatment. Schulman and Sam discuss this transformation and its relevance to social movements today.

Resource Information

Year: 2022
Author: Deborah B. Gould
Publisher: HarperCollins
Tags: —
Access : Public
Topics : Health
Regions : North America

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