scholarly journals The People vs the NHS: Biosexual Citizenship and Hope in Stories of PrEP Activism

Somatechnics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-194
Author(s):  
Charlotte Jones ◽  
Ingrid Young ◽  
Nicola Boydell
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Health System ◽  
Essential Medicines ◽  
British Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
Gay Community ◽  
Aids Activism ◽  
The People ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Exposure Prophylaxis

Discourses of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) revel in its radical potential as a global HIV prevention technology, offering a promise of change for the broader landscape of HIV prevention. In 2018, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) aired The People vs The NHS: Who Gets the Drugs?, a documentary focused on the ‘battle’ to make PrEP available in England. In this article we explore how the BBC documentary positions PrEP, PrEP biosexual citizen-activists, as well as the wider role of the NHS in HIV prevention and the wellbeing of communities affected by HIV in the UK. We consider how biosexual citizenship ( Epstein 2018 ) is configured through future imaginaries of hope, and the spectral histories of AIDS activism. We describe how The People crafts a story of PrEP activism in the context of an imagined gay community whose past, present, and hopeful future is entangled within the complexities and contractions of a state-funded health system. Here, PrEP functions as a ‘happiness pointer’ ( Ahmed 2011 ), to orient imagined gay communities towards a hopeful future by demanding and accessing essential medicines and ensuring the absence of needless HIV transmissions. This biomedical success emerges from a shared traumatic past and firmly establishes the salvatory trajectory of PrEP and an imagined gay community who have continued to be affected by HIV. However, campaigns about the individual's right to access PrEP construct the availability and consumption of PrEP as an end goal to their activism, where access to PrEP is understood as an individual's right as a pharmaceutical consumer.

The New Fundraisers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Breeze
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Original Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The People ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Spending Cuts

This book is the first academic study of the profession of fundraising in the UK. Fundraising is an essential yet largely invisible career, despite its growing importance during a period of extensive public spending cuts and growing reliance on charities. There is a growing body of work focused on donors, such that the identity and motivation of those who provide resources are increasingly understood. Yet little is known about the motivation and characteristics of those who ask for voluntary support, despite almost every donation being solicited. As it is not possible to understand charitable giving without accounting for the role of fundraising, this book provides the first empirically-grounded and theorised account of the identity, characteristics and motivation of fundraisers in the UK. Based on original data collected during a 3-year study of over 1,200 fundraisers, the book describes the complexity and subtlety of their everyday practices and makes an argument that the ‘new fundraisers’ have recently emerged in a necessarily complementary relationship with the far more widely discussed phenomenon of the ‘new philanthropists’. As well as a corrective to the lack of meaningful academic interest in this subject, this book is also a response to the growing hostility to fundraising in both the public and political spheres. It provides a better understanding of this important aspect of social life, and challenges the illogical position whereby charities are widely admired, but the people who keep them in business are not.

9. Government and Accountability

Public Law ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 249-300
Author(s):  
Andrew Le Sueur ◽  
Maurice Sunkin ◽  
Jo Eric Khushal Murkens
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Public Power ◽  
The People ◽  
The Uk

This chapter examines the people and processes that comprise government in the UK. It considers the constitutional and legal status and role of the monarchy, ministers, civil servants, as well as holders of appointed public offices. It then turns to one of the central features of a good constitution, namely that it provides opportunities for those who exercise public power to be ‘held to account’ or ‘accountable’ for their decisions and conduct.

scholarly journals O1 Is pre-exposure prophylaxis for hiv prevention cost-effective in men who have sex with men who engage in condomless sex in the uk?

2015 ◽  
Vol 91 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. A1.1-A1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Cambiano ◽  
Alec Miners ◽  
David Dunn ◽  
Sheena McCormack ◽  
Noel Gill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Condomless Sex ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Exposure Prophylaxis

scholarly journals Disentangling the Brexit vote: The role of economic, social and cultural contexts in explaining the UK’s EU referendum vote

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (7) ◽  
pp. 1434-1456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Abreu ◽  
Özge Öner
Keyword(s):  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Election Study ◽  
Composition Effects ◽  
Voter Preferences ◽  
The People ◽  
Continuous Interaction ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Geographical Context

A large number of studies have analysed the role of individual and geographical determinants of voting behaviour in the context of the recent EU referendum in the UK, but several questions remain. A key unresolved issue is the extent of the interaction between individual voter characteristics and the geographical context in which they live, with some of the variance in voter preferences previously attributed to individual characteristics potentially being mediated by the geographical context. Space, and the people who live in it, are in continuous interaction, which requires a careful conceptual and empirical treatment of the issues of composition and sorting. We therefore ask to what extent individuals with very similar individual characteristics voted differently in different places. We use data from the British Election Study, along with a non-parametric matching approach, to analyse whether comparable individuals voted differently in areas with particular economic and cultural characteristics. We find that composition effects account for less than half of the observed constituency-level variation in the vote, while the remaining contextual effects are driven almost entirely by cultural factors.

scholarly journals Who and what is their ‘people’? How British political leaders appealed to the people during the 2019 election

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marino De Luca
Keyword(s):  
General Election ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The People ◽  
Cohesive Group ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Voice

AbstractIn recent years, many scholars, mainly those focusing on populism, have analysed the role of ‘the people’ in politics. This has allowed us to understand how many political actors emphasize the central position of this term. Today, ‘the people’ has different meanings depending on how politicians use it in specific contexts. In this paper, the reference to ‘the people’ was measured using the following question: How do political leaders use the word ‘people’? The analysis was conducted on Twitter through the study of the accounts of the foremost political leaders in the UK during the 2019 general election campaign. The results highlight three key attitudes related to the use of ‘people’: a direct and immediate relationship between a leader and a wide people; a calling to a specific people, described as a strong and cohesive group; an appropriation of the voice of the people, grouping people without borders into the classic contraposition between a pure people and the corrupt elite.

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