The purpose of this research is to understand how Nepal's conflict is affecting vulnerabilities to HIV and exposure to the virus among females and males. Data was primarily collected during a three-week exploratory field study of Surkhet district in 2005. Twenty key informants and 35 stakeholders were interviewed, with the results triangulated by six focus groups. Documentary sources complement this data. A sociological model is designed depicting how the impact of the conflict and the responses of those affected have given rise to three different vulnerabilities to HIV: imposed contextual, conditional contextual and internalised. The paper concludes that the majority of those affected by Nepal's conflict are more vulnerable to the disease and that exposure to the virus may be increasing with forced displacement and migration.

The article focuses on web documentaries as a form of interactive historiography by presenting a case study on Freedom’s Ring (2013), a multi-media-based animation of Martin Luther King’s speech ‘I have a Dream’ published in Vectors. Taking both the production and the reception side into account, the article addresses the constitution of knowledge ‐ or rather aesthetic experience ‐ through artistic research practices. In doing so, it reflects upon the concepts of authorship, copyright and participation. Due to its numerous sources, the navigation system, the artwork, its referentiality and variability, it is made the case that Freedom’s Ring challenges history as a ‘grand narrative’ by creating a subjective point of view and putting the user in the position of an activist. Web documentaries are regarded as part of an epistemic and sociopolitical development, in which artistic and academic methods merge.

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