Michael J. Bosia

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Saint Michael’s College

Research & Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications:

“AIDS and Postcolonial Politics: Acting Up on Science and Immigration in France,” French Politics, Culture, & Society, Spring 2009. 

            “Sida et politiques postcoloniales : Act Up face à la science et à l’idéologie universaliste en France,” translated by Christophe Broqua for Caps aux Suds. Les mobilisations collectives face au sida dans le monde, F. Eboko and F. Bourdier, eds, IRD Editions, forthcoming.

25 Years at the Margins - The Global Politics of HIV/AIDS.  Special Symposium in
Perspectives on Politics (December 2006).  Meredith Weiss and Michael J. Bosia, eds.

            "Written in Blood: AIDS Prevention and the Politics of Failure in France."  Link to full text download

"Assassin! AIDS and Neoliberal Reform in France," New Political Science (September 2005). Link to Abstract

"Guilty as Charged? Accountability and the Politics of AIDS in France." The Global Politics of AIDS. Paul G. Harris and Patricia D. Siplon, eds. (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2007). Link to Volume

"In Our Beds and Our Graves: Revealing the Politics of Pleasure and Pain in the Time of AIDS." Engaged Observer:  Anthropology, Advocacy, and Activism. Victoria Sanford and Asale Angel-Ajani, eds. (Rutgers University Press 2006). Link to Volume

Invited Review Essay Available Online:

Legal Responses to HIV and AIDS, by James Chalmers, Law and Politics Book Review 19:7 (July 2009)

"From Contention to Engagement: French Social Science and the Politics of HIV/AIDS," French Politics (2007). Link to full text download.
 

Selected Additional Publications

Comparative Politics:  Structures and Choices, by Lowell Barrington.  Cengage, 2009.  “Topics in Country” contributing author on France.

“Semaine Harvey Milk/C'est comme si le monde s’était brisé ce mois-là,” March 2009, www.Yagg.com.

“1989:  Act Up Paris is Founded,” in Great Events in History:  Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Events, Salem Press 2006.

Some Current Projects

The Other War: Marginalization, Citizenship, and the Politics of AIDS in France, manuscript.

Globalization and Food Sovereignty: Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food, edited volume with Jeffrey Ayres. 

“Homophobe!  Global Repression, Local Resistance, and the Meaning of Human Rights,” article length.

Translation of "A Comparative Perspective on Sexual Practices Between Men in Bamako:  Can the Appeal of an Evolutionary Model of Identity Be Avoided?" by Christophe Broqua.

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