Chapter 7 The European HIV/ AIDS Archive: building a queer counter- memory

• Main Author: Dziuban, Agata (auth)
• Other Authors: Januschke, Eugen (auth), Klöppel, Ulrike (auth), Sekuler, Todd (auth), Struzik, Justyna (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Manchester University Press 2022
• Subjects: History of medicine; HIV / AIDS; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; 21st century history: from c 2000 -; European history; HIV/AIDS; archive; queer theory; queer counter-memory; utopia; European HIV/AIDS Archive; Europe; ephemera; affect theory; oral history
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Mobilising a queer theoretical framework, by which we mean embracing unhappiness, ephemerality, and instability, this chapter reflects on processes of archiving oral histories as part of the European HIV/AIDS Archive (EHAA). It presents selected challenges and tensions that lie at the heart of remem...