The Different Iconographies of HIV & TB

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1 The Different Iconographies of HIV & TB Hella von Unger Dennis Odukoya Institute of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany TB/HIV: Distinct Histories, Entangled Futures. Towards an Epistemology of Coinfection Symposium, February 27th 2014, Geneva (Switzerland)

2 Overview Background Project Framework Methodology Analysis: Selected TB and HIV Posters from Germany ( ) Results and Discussion # 2

3 Background TB in Germany: from white plague to lowprevalence HIV/Aids: from stigmatization to normalization (Rosenbrock et al. 2000) # 3

4 Theoretical Background Sociology of Knowledge (Fleck 1980/1935) Discourse Theory: Knowledge/Powercomplexes; power as a productive force Sociology of Medicine (Epstein 1996) The Preventive Self (Lengwiler & Madarász 2010) # 4

5 Project Framework Changing Categories: Migrants in epidemiological, preventive and legal discourses on HIV and tuberculosis A discourse analysis comparing Germany and the UK Duration: 9/2012-9/2015 Funding: Deutsche Forschungs-Gemeinschaft (DFG) Project Team: Hella von Unger (PI), Penelope Scott, Dennis Odukoya, Simon Starz # 5

6 Methodology Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Analysis (SKAD) (Keller 2013) Analysis of visual data as part of discourse analysis (Maasen et al. 2006; Meier 2010) Iconography as the analysis of meanings in visual material (Panowski 1972) # 6

7 Methodology Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Analysis (SKAD) (Keller 2013) Analysis of visual data as part of discourse analysis (Maasen et al. 2006; Meier 2010) Iconography as the analysis of meanings in visual material (Panowski 1972) How do images shape the social and discursive construction of a disease? # 7

8 Analytical Steps 1. Description of Content 2. Analysis of Form and Composition 3. Interpretation of Meaning 4. Socio-historical Contextualization 5. Comparison with other Materials # 8

9 Data Corpus Selected Posters from World-TB-Day Selected Posters from World-AIDS-Day Investigation Period: # 9

10 Selected Posters from World-TB- & World-AIDS-Day [not shown here] # 10

11 Results TB Affects the poor other elsewhere in the world HIV/Aids Affects us living in Germany Indices of medical profession (x-ray, microscope etc.) No indices of medical profession HCPs PLWHA Call for donation Call for solidarity # 11

12 Conclusion TB is depicted as a medical issue, affecting poor people in the third world HIV is depicted as a social phenomenon, as part of the normal everyday life in Germany Coinfection remains a blind spot in the material produced for the respective health-days # 12

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14 Thank you Hella von Unger Dennis Odukoya Institute of Sociology Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich, Germany # 14