Consultation, Partnership and Responsibility as Strategies of Regulation
Gary Kinsman This ethnographic report follows how state regulations subjugate community-based organizations through AIDS organizations by investigating the usage of the terms, "consultation", "partnership" and "responsibility": Kinsman states that the document produced after the Canadian federal government's "consultation" with various interest groups formed a "hegemonic administrative framework" to regulate community-based AIDS groups by using neutral terms, such as "partnership," to draw apparent consensus (p.221). It is also mentioned that the ambiguity of this word led continuing arguments over the "terms" of partnership (p.227). He also observed that the use of the word "responsibility" against patients infected through sexual conducts not only obstructed them from access to proper treatment but also hindered a social/strategic paradigm shift about AIDS, a chronic manageable condition. This article