ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the prevailing debates surrounding social capital, with a focus on the problematic nature of the approach. It provides a more detailed discussion of disruptive social capital framework, which emphasizes the instability and turbulence in resources through social networks for resource poor, marginalized, and socially excluded communities in the United States (US). This disruptive social capital framework emerged from a qualitative analysis of interviews, conducted in 2004-05 with 52 Filipino men living with HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles. The chapter discusses disruptive social capital and health for these Filipino men living with HIV/AIDS. It provides insights into nature of disruption associated with HIV/AIDS, and highlights how social capital both helps individuals to access resources through their social networks, but also acts, often simultaneously, to create health denigrating conditions, such as heightening contacts with places and persons that enable HIV transmission, or enabling micro-level containment and social control. The chapter concludes with the questions that arise from this analysis and conceptual approach.
