This paper presents empirical material drawn from an intentionally local AIDS quilting project in a disadvantaged inner-city district of Dublin, Ireland. The paper aims to address two key gaps in human geography. Firstly, by examining the AIDS quilts through their primary functions of therapy, activism, and commemoration, this paper finds an emphasis on place, rather than names that foregrounds the geographical, as opposed to merely rhetorical dimensions of the AIDS quilt. In doing so, it questions the forms of political community that have been claimed through the more well-studied NAMES Memorial Quilt. Secondly, by conceptualising AIDS quilts through the lens of humanistic geography, it reflects upon the act of quilting as producing what Yi-Fu Tuan described as a “field of care,” a place that may be more attentive to the structural AIDS vulnerability visited upon affected communities. It concludes with implications for the study of AIDS interventions amid wounded cities. As these damaged communities seek ways to repair themselves, the quilts act as paradigmatic cases of care for others, through care for place.

本文介绍了从爱尔兰都柏林一个处于不利地位的市中心城区的一个有意本地艾滋病缝项目中获得的经验材料。本文旨在解决人文地理学中的两个关键空白。首先，通过对艾滋病被子的主要治疗，行动和纪念功能进行研究，本文发现了重点，而不是仅仅突出地理意义的地名，而不是艾滋病被子的修辞格。在此过程中，它质疑通过更深入研究的NAMES纪念被褥所宣称的政治共同体形式。其次，通过从人文地理学的角度将艾滋病被子概念化，它反映了被子的行为产生了伊甫团所说的“护理领域，可能更关注受灾社区所遭受的结构性艾滋病脆弱性的地方。它的结论对研究受伤城市中的艾滋病干预措施具有重要意义。当这些受损的社区寻求自我修复的方法时，被子就成为通过照顾地方来照顾他人的典范案例。