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Visualizing the Politics of Innocence in the Age of Aids

By Mitchell, C., Walsh, S., Larkin, J.
Sex Education. London: Routledge, (forthcoming 2003)

We are concerned with the ways in which social constructions of age can contribute to reducing or exacerbating the vulnerability of young people,and for this reason we refer to the issue as one of 'the politics ofinnocence'. The focus of this paper is on gender, youth and HIV prevention/ AIDS awareness in the context of South Africa and investigates the uses (and abuses) of images of ‘childhood’, ‘youth’ and ‘adolescence’ in the age of AIDS. Not-withstanding the particular case of South Africa right now where the incidence of new cases of HIV infection amongst young people is at crisis proportions, the impetus for our work on the visual representations of youth, gender and AIDS comes out of a recognition of the increasing risk of youth to sexually transmitted infections, HIV and AIDS, and within that the particular vulnerability, worldwide, of young women.

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	Other Publications Visualizing the Politics of Innocence in the Age of Aids By Mitchell, C., Walsh, S., Larkin, J. Sex Education. London: Routledge, (forthcoming 2003) We are concerned with the ways in which social constructions of age can contribute to reducing or exacerbating the vulnerability of young people,and for this reason we refer to the issue as one of 'the politics ofinnocence'. The focus of this paper is on gender, youth and HIV prevention/ AIDS awareness in the context of South Africa and investigates the uses (and abuses) of images of ‘childhood’, ‘youth’ and ‘adolescence’ in the age of AIDS. Not-withstanding the particular case of South Africa right now where the incidence of new cases of HIV infection amongst young people is at crisis proportions, the impetus for our work on the visual representations of youth, gender and AIDS comes out of a recognition of the increasing risk of youth to sexually transmitted infections, HIV and AIDS, and within that the particular vulnerability, worldwide, of young women. Back to Publications Home