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| Michael J. Bosia | Act Up Paris, World AIDS Day, 1 December 2001. "AIDS: The Other War" | ||||
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Assistant Professor |
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Bio:
Michael Bosia, a San Francisco native, served as a legislative
assistant, consultant, and staff director in the California State Senate
before beginning doctoral studies at Northwestern University. He began
in politics organizing a campus chapter of Students for Economic
Democracy and serving on the statewide steering committee. Drawing
from his early work on AIDS policy in the 1980s, Bosia focuses on the
connection between two key dimensions in politics: the relationship
between movements and the state, and the intersection of ethics and
action. His work is highly contextual, examining movements within
ongoing historical struggles over the obligations of the state, the
moral dimension of policy, and the legal and cultural extension of
citizenship. His initial focus on accountability for the failure of
early HIV/AIDS prevention efforts in France and the US - including the
failure to secure the blood supply - has expanded to include
contestation within the transnational AIDS activist movement over the
globalization of medical research and the demands of a global regime
linking science, capital, and government. His research and publications explore identity and marginalization, the mythic and ethical dimensions of both identity and politics, the responsibilities of state officials and policy makers, criminal accountability for policy failure within democratic settings, and postcolonial responses to global regimes. More recently, Bosia is looking into the local responses to global agriculture in the US and France. Teaching interests include: comparative politics; European politics; political violence, democratization, and transitional justice; French domestic and international politics; the politics of race, gender, and sexuality; food as a political, economic, and cultural system; local responses to globalization; film, culture, and politics. Bosia moved to Vermont with his partner, Steven Obranovich, in 2004. They live in Hardwick, a small community in the state's rural Northeast Kingdom, where they are co-owners of Claire's Restaurant and Bar. |
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