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global AIDS governance and explores the possibilities of social innovation of society in
its response to risks. The two moral regimes coping with problematized situations in the
contemporary world are conceptualized as“center” and“border” respectively.“center”
promotes normative educational discourse in the name of defending society, reifying
order and pursuing cost鄄effectiveness in actual operations. “border”undertakes
exploratory social action guided by a specific idea of goodness. While the two approaches
engage in continuous battles, integration and penetration between themselves, people
living with HIV worldwide were first degraded into a separated biomedical pariah
population, and then were brought under the strict medical regime of Highly Active
Anti鄄Retroviral Therapy(HAART). This shift between abject exclusion and exceptional
inclusion indicates the meta鄄structure of life governance in the contemporary world.
China’s border cities are key outposts of global AIDS governance that reflect how
the institutional deployment of exclusion and inclusion extends from global to local. The
“zuo aizibing”(doing AIDS projects) in Biancheng, a southwest China border town
embodies typically as well as uniquely the complicated“center/border”entanglement.
The “border” organised “infected peer groups” are embedded in the local official
governance system, incarnating as “frontline foot soldiers” serving as the“center”,
facilitating a smoother integration of the city’s HIV鄄positive people into the public
health monitoring system, where they are disciplined to become docile medical subjects.
The groups, in adaptable symbiosis with the normative deployment, have also been able
to open up entirely new fields of social action on their own, allowing a humanitarian
vision to be replayed, “translated” and implemented. Through the transmission of
knowledge, affection and vitality, the groups have freed their HIV鄄positive peers,
otherwise abandoned by normative logic, from stigmatization, from being limited by
disease and treatment and to start the pursuit of new forms of life. As a global social
experiment, the “border”, as revealed by AIDS, has far鄄reaching implications for
exploring the inclusive and open potential of society itself.
Keywords:moral, governmentality, HIV/AIDS, biopolitics, humanitarianism
在全球化的当下,重大传染病威胁着人类健康和社会安全,感染者
往往被当作危险的传染源而被区隔对待。 其中,由于存在着严重的污
名,艾滋病引发了大众的恐惧与戒备。 桑塔格(2003:108-109)在 20 世
纪 80 年代指出,对艾滋病的检测与治理将创造一个全新的、被社会主
流所排斥的生物医学“贱民阶级”,现实显然证实了她的预言(郭金华,
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