New article at Medical Anthropology journal
Ferdiansyah Thajib, together with Benjamin Hegarty, Amalia P. Handayani, Rully Mallay, and Arum Marischa, has recently published a paper in Medical Anthropology titled “Research, HIV/AIDS, and Turning Waria into a Key Population in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Oral History.”The study challenges the dominant narrative of HIV/AIDS, which is predominantly shaped by perspectives from the Global North and often embedded in policies and programs that prioritize biomedical approaches to treatment and prevention.This is done by exploring how one Indonesian transgender population known as waria became the subject of various forms of research since the 1980s. Research was one way that waria came to be classified as part of the key population of “transgender people.” Drawing on an oral history project conducted in 2021/2022, the article shows how – while necessarily hierarchical – ethnographic accounts of other HIV/AIDS histories can rethink fundamental global health concepts.
The paper can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2024.2425042