Représentations du sida et pratiques populaires à Kinshasa

Représentations du sida et pratiques populaires à KinshasaLe sida offre aux anthropologues un terrain riche en connaissances nouvelles. En contrepartie, les chercheurs peuvent mettre leurs analyses des représentations populaires et des structures sociales au service de la prévention. Cet article examine les connaissances et pratiques populaires qui se développent rapidement autour du sida dans la capitale du Zaïre.AIDS Représentations and Popular Practices in KinshasaAIDS provides anthropologists with a rich new field of knowledge. In exchange, researchers can use their analysis of popular représentations and social structures in aid of disease prévention. This article examines knowledge and responses to AIDS in thé process of rapid development in Zaire's capital city

Genocidio e violenza di genere in Rwanda, 1994

All’interno delle arene nazionali e internazionali, l’intensa copertura mediatica della violenza privilegia alcuni discorsi e ne mette a tacere altri. In Rwanda, quasi un milione di persone, sia tutsi che hutu, fu ucciso in tre mesi a partire dall’aprile 1994. Mentre il mondo assisteva alla brutale carneficina, le Nazioni Unite ritiravano la propria forza di pace e i governi stranieri mandavano truppe paramilitari per evacuare i propri connazionali. I media occidentali adottarono figure retoriche ben note come quelle di “violenza tribale” e di “odi etnici secolari” per spiegare questa brutalità. Un’altra nazione africana era “piombata nell’anarchia”

AIDS action-research with women in Kinshasa, Zaire

AIDS has assumed epidemic proportions in Central Africa. Knowledge of culturally constructed gender relations and sexual meanings is crucial to developing prevention strategies and reducing the impact of AIDS. CONNAISSIDA, a transdisciplinary medical anthropology research project, developed culturally appropriate community-based empowerment workshops. These used cognitive, emotional and social stimulants to provoke critical reflection and action. Collaborative relationships developed in workshops were used to study sexual relations in many contexts. Significant changes in knowledge and action were observed. Nevertheless, economic necessity and inequality limited the ability of many women to avoid sexual risk. Economic crisis, structural adjustment and debt reimbursement policies have exacerbated poverty, particularly among women. Linking macrolevel political economy to microlevel sociocultural analysis shows how strategies adopted for survival contribute to sexual risk. Therefore broader socioeconomic changes that reduce poverty and gender subordination are necessary to controll the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Findings from Zaire are widely applicable in the region.AIDS gender relations economic crisis empowerment performance ethnography

Structural Anthropoloyg

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