CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Oleszak, Andrzej Marek |
|---|---|
| Title | REPRESENTATIONS OF PEOPLE WITH AIDS IN POLISH PRINTED NEWS MEDIA, 1993-2010 |
| Summary | This thesis focuses on various representations of People with AIDS (PWAs) in Polish newspapers between the years 1993 and 2010. Through the means of discursive analysis, I intend to look at the way the discourse on HIV/AIDS shifted from a “tropical” model (Patton 2002) based on the concept of social marginality to racist discourse of “otherness” and difference. I will argue that this shift involved the “side effect” of reformulating such related concepts as risk, blame and choice. I will also use the biopolitical framework to raise the broader questions about the way in which discourse on HIV has been mobilized in Poland to establish political subjectivity of the country’s citizens and to set the boundaries between the state’s population and other groups which are presented as a threat to the health and well-being of the nation. |
| Supervisor | Renkin, Hadley Zaun |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/oleszak_andrzej.pdf |
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