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AbstractIn Colombia, it is possible to establish links between the period known as La Violencia and contemporary forced displacement since the illegal seizure of land, assassinations and forced migration toward middle-sized and large cities are abiding features of these two phenomena. We have observed in Bogota the impact of forced displacement on a group of Afro-Colombian women of rural origin, coming from Chocó (Pacific region). Their experience of no longer being able to exercise their traditional cultural practices in Bogota provides a glimpse of the dynamic characterizing Colombia's internal armed conflict in this area. They do, however, use certain strategies so that their culture becomes, as it were, a letter of introduction when they attempt to position their depreciated otherness in neighbourhood contexts where cultural practices associated with Colombia's Andean culture predominate; as such, they become intercultural mediators while bringing to light the problems of social exclusion experienced by their neighbours who have not been displaced.
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SummaryFrom empirical research carried out with 40 young men involved in the sex trade (street prostitutes, dancers and escorts), four profiles or life scenarios are drawn : delinquency, in which drug addiction and prostitution go hand in hand ; the search for extra income, which is apparent among youth for whom prostitution represents a temporary or occasional means of increasing their income ; peer recognition, which is found among youth for whom the environment of prostitution already was or became their « family ; » finally, the need for freedom identified among youth for whom the activities of prostitution are some of the most gratifying since they help them to realise themselves on various levels. We therefore conclude that the prostitution of young men is a multi-faceted phenomenon and intervention (in particular the prevention of std s and hiv) should take this into account.
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An accidental fire in a room in one of the victims' shelters in Caracas forms the starting point for this analysis of the process of social relegation and moral questioning of the families affected by the disaster which hit Venezuela in December 1999 (known locally as La Tragedia). This article grows out of a reflection on the articulation of social and institutional violence with the lives and institutional trajectories of the victims, and is based on ethnographic research carried out in the shelters between 2000 and 2004. The experience of the female victims interviewed shows how factors such as localisation, infrastructure and socio-political organisation combine to produce highly unstable living conditions. Moreover, as the status of disaster victim loses its legitimacy, the experience can be one of violence set within everyday life. The article offers a contribution to an anthropology of disaster, showing that the subjection of victims in these shelters is marked by a temporality different from that of the emergency, and by the ending of the political and social legitimacy of the status of victim.
Keywords: Vasquez, anthropologie de la catastrophe, sinistrés, violence, subjectivation, assujettissement, révolution bolivarienne, Venezuela, Vasquez, Anthropology of Disaster, Victims, Violence, Subjectivation, Subjection, Bolivarian Revolution, Venezuela, Vasquez, antropología de la catástrofe, damnificados, violencia, subjetivación, sujeción, revolución bolivariana, Venezuela
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AbstractAIDS 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.
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Affect et Témoigner pour Agir. Penser l'action sociale du témoignage public dans sa forme artistique
More informationThis article follows a reception study of the militant art exhibition “Témoigner pour Agir” (2017-2018). To better understand the social and subversive actions deployed by public testimonial in its artistic form, exhibition visitors' responses are put in dialogue with that of an exploratory conceptual analysis of three of the artworks presented. The analysis is based on feminist philosopher Sara Ahmed's theorizations of affect, a sociopolitical definition of emotions that allows for thinking about their role in the consolidation of social norms and inequalities as well as in their transformation. Making visible, shocking the public, and showing the way to inclusion and recognition appear as social actions with the potential to reach publics in a different way, i.e. against the current. Finally, the analysis of the intervention through artistic testimonials contributes to a broader reflection on the role of emotions in the field of social work.
Keywords: Témoignage, art, affect, intervention, exposition, féminisme, réception, Testimonial, art, affect, social work, exhibition, feminism, reception
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ABSTRACTSince all film theories are implicitly or explicitly concerned with spectatorship, the author proposes that this requires postulating the activity of conscious and unconscious psychological processes that are ultimately "cognitive" in nature. He then puts forward that criticism of cognitive film theory often stems from a misunderstanding or lack of knowledge about current trends in cognitive and social-cognitive psychology. A brief survey of research that is pertinent to several of Bordwell's ideas includes experiments conducted in the authors laboratory and demonstrates the contribution that empirical studies can make to film theory, especially with regard to the importance of narrative structure, the relations between cognition and emotions and the role of cognitive biases in film interpretation by both spectators and critics.