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Title: | The TAC's 'intellectual campaign' (2000-2004): social movements and epistemic communities |
Author: | Vandormael, Alain |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies |
Volume: | 34 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 217-233 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | action groups health policy AIDS |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589340701725306 |
Abstract: | This paper presents a discussion of the manner in which the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) campaigned to counter a range of unorthodox AIDS views that were advanced by the South African government. The author discusses how this organization endeavoured to defend and consolidate the biomedical science of HIV from a series of institutionalized political attacks by making use of an epistemic community in its strategy. Describing this endeavour as the TAC's 'intellectual campaign', the author argues that this specific form of political participation differs conceptually and empirically from the civil actions usually witnessed in the streets and in the courtrooms. This particular strategy ultimately added to the TAC's social movement plan of action and contributed significantly to its success in pressuring the government to reform its litigious HIV/AIDS policy. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |