Struggling to care: A discursive-material analysis of negotiating agency among HIV-positive MSM

A discursive-materialist framework of agency asserts the mutual constitution of agency within cultural discursive, economic, and embodied material structures. Understanding how HIV-positive men who have sex with men in the Philippines negotiate agency vis-a-vis wider social structures, we utilized F...

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Main Authors: Canoy, Nico A, Ofreneo, Mira Alexis P
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2016
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Online Access:https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/138
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363459315628040
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.psychology-faculty-pubs-11372020-06-11T07:58:49Z Struggling to care: A discursive-material analysis of negotiating agency among HIV-positive MSM Canoy, Nico A Ofreneo, Mira Alexis P A discursive-materialist framework of agency asserts the mutual constitution of agency within cultural discursive, economic, and embodied material structures. Understanding how HIV-positive men who have sex with men in the Philippines negotiate agency vis-a-vis wider social structures, we utilized Foucault’s care of the self to locate agency in relationships with the self, others, and the broader world. Using data from narratives of 20 Filipino HIV-positive men who have sex with men, we analyzed the negotiation of agency as HIV-positive as embedded in the unique discursive terrain of Roman Catholicism and the economic materiality of a developing country. Three main processes of negotiating agency are elaborated: (1) questioning the spiritual self and the sexual body in the relationship with the self, (2) navigating interpersonal limits to care giving in the relationship with others, and (3) reclaiming human dignity in health care in the relationship with the broader world. Theoretical insights on the discursive and material constitution of healing in light of discursive and material challenges are discussed. 2016-02-01T08:00:00Z text https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/138 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363459315628040 Psychology Department Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo care of the self discursive-material Foucault HIV men who have sex with men Other Psychology Psychology
institution Ateneo De Manila University
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topic care of the self
discursive-material
Foucault
HIV
men who have sex with men
Other Psychology
Psychology
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discursive-material
Foucault
HIV
men who have sex with men
Other Psychology
Psychology
Canoy, Nico A
Ofreneo, Mira Alexis P
Struggling to care: A discursive-material analysis of negotiating agency among HIV-positive MSM
description A discursive-materialist framework of agency asserts the mutual constitution of agency within cultural discursive, economic, and embodied material structures. Understanding how HIV-positive men who have sex with men in the Philippines negotiate agency vis-a-vis wider social structures, we utilized Foucault’s care of the self to locate agency in relationships with the self, others, and the broader world. Using data from narratives of 20 Filipino HIV-positive men who have sex with men, we analyzed the negotiation of agency as HIV-positive as embedded in the unique discursive terrain of Roman Catholicism and the economic materiality of a developing country. Three main processes of negotiating agency are elaborated: (1) questioning the spiritual self and the sexual body in the relationship with the self, (2) navigating interpersonal limits to care giving in the relationship with others, and (3) reclaiming human dignity in health care in the relationship with the broader world. Theoretical insights on the discursive and material constitution of healing in light of discursive and material challenges are discussed.
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author Canoy, Nico A
Ofreneo, Mira Alexis P
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Ofreneo, Mira Alexis P
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title Struggling to care: A discursive-material analysis of negotiating agency among HIV-positive MSM
title_short Struggling to care: A discursive-material analysis of negotiating agency among HIV-positive MSM
title_full Struggling to care: A discursive-material analysis of negotiating agency among HIV-positive MSM
title_fullStr Struggling to care: A discursive-material analysis of negotiating agency among HIV-positive MSM
title_full_unstemmed Struggling to care: A discursive-material analysis of negotiating agency among HIV-positive MSM
title_sort struggling to care: a discursive-material analysis of negotiating agency among hiv-positive msm
publisher Archīum Ateneo
publishDate 2016
url https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/138
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363459315628040
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