Professionnalisme, internationalisme, universalisme

En se basant sur une recherche anthropologique réalisée auprès de médecins finnois du Comité International de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) qui ont travaillé dans des zones de guerre et de conflits à travers le monde, cet article examine les politiques et l’éthique de la neutralité, de l’internationalisme et du professionnalisme. Celles-ci seront considérées en relation avec les débats actuels portant sur l’universalisme.Based on anthropological research with Finnish medical professionals of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who have worked in war and conflict zones around the world, this essay examines the politics and ethics of neutrality, internationalism and professionalism. These are considered in relation to current debates about universalisms.Basado en una investigación antropológica realizada entre los médicos finlandeses del Comité Internacional de la Cruz-Roja (CICR), que han trabajado en las zonas de guerra y de conflicto a través del mundo, este artículo examina las políticas y la ética de la neutralidad, del internacionalismo y del profesionalismo. Los abordamos en relación a los debates actuales sobre el universalismo

Gendered endings: Narratives of male and female suicides in the South African Lowveld

This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11013-012-9258-y. Copyright @ Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012.Durkheim’s classical theory of suicide rates being a negative index of social solidarity downplays the salience of gendered concerns in suicide. But gendered inequalities have had a negative impact: worldwide significantly more men than women perpetrate fatal suicides. Drawing on narratives of 52 fatal suicides in Bushbuckridge, South Africa, this article suggests that Bourdieu’s concepts of ‘symbolic violence’ and ‘masculine domination’ provide a more appropriate framework for understanding this paradox. I show that the thwarting of investments in dominant masculine positions have been the major precursor to suicides by men. Men tended to take their own lives as a means of escape. By contrast, women perpetrated suicide to protest against the miserable consequences of being dominated by men. However, contra the assumption of Bourdieu’s concept of ‘habitus’, the narrators of suicide stories did reflect critically upon gender constructs