AIDS activism and globalisation from below: occupying new spaces of citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa.
Abstract
This article explores the organisational practices and strategies of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), an AIDS activist social movement in South Africa. TAC, like other new social movements, draws on grassroots, bottom-up, network-based modes of organisation that operate simultaneously in diverse local, national and global spaces. The article argues that TAC provides examples of organisational practices that cut across institutional and non-institutional spaces, and that are capable of generating multiple relations to the state. In doing so, it has provided its members with opportunities to engage simultaneously in a variety of participatory spaces that allow for the articulation of new forms of citizenship from below.
Citation
IDS Bulletin - Vol 35 No 2, pp. 84-90 [DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-5436.2004.tb00125.x]
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