8 - Youth Religiosity and Moral Critique: God, Government and Generations in a Time of AIDS in Uganda
Corresponding Author(s) : Catrine Christiansen
Afrique et développement,
Vol. 36 No 3-4 (2011): Afrique et développement: Special Issue on ‘The Ideologies of Youth’
Résumé
Cet article met en exergue la centralité de la question de la jeunesse en Ouganda, un pays où la religion et la politique contribuent au changement de la société. La question de la jeunesse est devenue un point très important dans l’aide au développement, mais sa conceptualisation reste toujours ambigüe. C’est cette ambigüité dans la conceptualisation de la jeunesse comme victime ou agent qui est à la base des efforts qui visent à impliquer les jeunes dans les efforts pour la prévention de la propagation du VIH et la réduction des effets néfastes du SIDA. L’article démontre que les jeunes dans leur majorité consentent à leur position au bas de l’échelle sociale et se considèrent ainsi comme des personnes qui n’ont pas fini de grandir. Ils se cantonnent ainsi dans une zone de confort d’où ils peuvent critiquer leurs ainés pour n’avoir pas maintenu la solidarité familiale et s’occuper suffisamment bien de la jeune génération. Se basant sur une pièce de théâtre jouée par une troupe de jeunes catholiques, l’article montre comment les jeunes combinent les valeurs culturelles, les droits des enfants et la moralité chrétienne pour mettre à nu l’égoïsme et la décadence morale chez les plus âgés, et se montrer eux même comme étant les gardiens de la moralité au profit de la société en général.
Les agences du développement, se basant sur les droits de l’homme, revendiquent le droit des jeunes à prendre part aux actions qui concernent leur vie et leurs droits, leur épanouissement dans des espaces sécurisés de socialisation et le développement de leurs talents. Le concept utilisé dans cet article définit la jeunesse comme une catégorie d’êtres sociaux et socialisables dans un contexte où la sexualité est devenue une partie intégrante du discours politique.
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- Bjerk, B., 2005, ‘Building a New Eden’: Lutheran Church Youth Choir Performances in Tanzania, Journal of Religion in Africa 35(3): 324-354.
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- Christiansen, C., B. C. Yamba, M. Daniels, 2005,. ‘Introduction: Growing up in an Era of AIDS’, Africa Journal of AIDS Research, 4 (3): 135-138.
- Christiansen, C., M. Utas, H. Vigh, 2006, ‘Introduction: Youth (E)scapes’, In C. Christiansen, Mats Utas and Henrik E Vigh, eds,.Navigating Youth, Generating Adulthood: Social Becoming in Contemporary Africa, Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute: 9-30.
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- Diouf, M., 2003, ‘Engaging Postcolonial Cultures: African Youth and Public Space’, African Studies Review, 46 (1): 1-12.
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- Parkhurst, J. and L. Lush, 2004,. The political Environment of HIV: Lessons from a Comparison of Uganda and South Africa’, Social Science and Medicine 59(9): 1913-1924.
- Prince, R., 2006, ‘Popular Music and Luo Youth in Western Kenya: Ambiguities of Modernity, Morality and Gender Relations in the Era of AIDS’, in C. Christiansen, Mats Utas and Henrik E Vigh, eds, Navigating Youth, Generating Adulthood: Social Becoming in Contemporary Africa.. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute: 117-152.
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- Uganda Bureau of Statistics, 2007, ‘Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2006’, Kampala: Uganda Bureau of Statistics.
- Utas, M., 2005, ‘Victimcy, Girlfriending, Soldiering: Tactic Agency in a Young Woman’s Social Navigation of the Liberian War Zone’, Anthropological Quarterly 78 (2): 403-430.
- van Dijk, R., 1992,.’Young Puritan Preachers in Post-Independence Malawi’ Africa 62: 159-181.
- van Dijk, R., 1998, ‘Pentecostalism, Cultural Memory and the State: Contested Representations of Time in Postcolonial Malawi’, in R. Werbner. Memory and the Postcolony, London: Zed Books: 155-181.
- Vigh, H., 2006,. Navigating Terrains of War: Youth and Soldiering in Guinea- Bissau, New York: Berghahn Books.
- Whyte, S. R., and Michael A. Whyte, 1998, ‘The Values of Development: Conceiving Growth and Progress’, in H. B. Hansen, and Michael Twaddle, Developing Uganda.. Oxford: James Currey: 227-244.
Les références
Allen, T. and S. Heald, 2004, ‘HIV/AIDS Policy in Africa: What has Worked in Uganda and What has Failed in Botswana?’ Journal of International Development 16 (8):1141-1154.
Bjerk, B., 2005, ‘Building a New Eden’: Lutheran Church Youth Choir Performances in Tanzania, Journal of Religion in Africa 35(3): 324-354.
Bledsoe, C. H., 1995, ‘Marginal Members: The Problem of Children of Previous Unions in Mende Households in Sierra Leone’, In S. Greenhalgh, ed., Situating Fertility: Anthropology and Demographic Analysis.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 130-153.
Christensen, A. and P. Janeway, eds,2005, Faith in Action: Examining the Role of Faith-Based Organizations in Addressing HIV/AIDS. Washington DC: Global Health Council.
Christiansen, C., B. C. Yamba, M. Daniels, 2005,. ‘Introduction: Growing up in an Era of AIDS’, Africa Journal of AIDS Research, 4 (3): 135-138.
Christiansen, C., M. Utas, H. Vigh, 2006, ‘Introduction: Youth (E)scapes’, In C. Christiansen, Mats Utas and Henrik E Vigh, eds,.Navigating Youth, Generating Adulthood: Social Becoming in Contemporary Africa, Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute: 9-30.
Christiansen, C. and S. R. Whyte, 2008, ‘Arenas of Child Support: Interfaces of Family, State, and NGO Provisions of Social Security in Uganda’ In A. A. Dani, and Arjan de Haan, eds, Inclusive States. Social Policy and Structural Inequalities,. Washington DC: The World Bank: 295-320.
Christiansen, C., 2009a, ‘When AIDS is Part of the (Christian) Family: Dynamics between Kinship and Religious Networks in Uganda’, In C. Letloff-Grandits, Anja Peleikis, and Tatjana Thelen, eds, Social Security in Religious Networks: Anthropological Perspectives on New Risks and Ambivalences. New York: Berghahn Books: 23-42.
Christiansen, C., 2009b, ‘The New Wives of Christ: Paradoxes and Potentials in the Remaking of Widow Lives in Uganda’, In F. Becker, and P. Wenzel Geissler, eds, Aids and Religious Practice in Africa. Leiden: Brill: 85-116.
Christiansen, C., 2009c, ‘Conditional Certainty: Uganda Charismatic Christians Striving for Health and Harmony’, in L. Haram, and Bawa C. Yamba, eds, Dealing with Uncertainty in Contemporary African Lives,. Stockholm: Nordic Africa Institute: 48-71.
Diouf, M., 2003, ‘Engaging Postcolonial Cultures: African Youth and Public Space’, African Studies Review, 46 (1): 1-12.
Durham, D., 2005, ‘Just Playing: Choirs, Bureaucracy, and the Work of Youth in Botswana’, in A. M. Honwana, and Filip de Boeck, eds, Makers and Breakers: Children and Youth in Postcolonial Africa.. Oxford, Dakar: James Currey, Codesria: 150-171.
Englund, H., 2007, ‘Pentecostalism beyond Belief: Trust and Democracy in a Malawian Township’, Africa 77(4): 477-499.
Gifford, P., 1998, ‘African Christianity: Its Public Role’, London: Hurst & Company. Gusman, A., 2009, ‘HIV/AIDS, Pentecostal Churches, and the “Joseph Generation” in Uganda’, Africa Today, 56 (1): 67-86.
Marshall-Fratani, R. (1998). ‘Mediating the Global and Local in Nigerian Pentecostalism’, Journal of Religion in Africa 28(3): 278-315.
Maxwell, D., 1998, ‘Delivered from the Spirit of Poverty?’: Pentecostalism, Prosperity and Modernity in Zimbabwe’, Journal of Religion in Africa 28 (3): 350-373.
Meyer, B., 1998, ‘Make a Complete Break with the Past.’ Memory and Post-colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse’, Journal of Religion in Africa 28(3): 316-349.
Parkhurst, J. and L. Lush, 2004,. The political Environment of HIV: Lessons from a Comparison of Uganda and South Africa’, Social Science and Medicine 59(9): 1913-1924.
Prince, R., 2006, ‘Popular Music and Luo Youth in Western Kenya: Ambiguities of Modernity, Morality and Gender Relations in the Era of AIDS’, in C. Christiansen, Mats Utas and Henrik E Vigh, eds, Navigating Youth, Generating Adulthood: Social Becoming in Contemporary Africa.. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute: 117-152.
Seidel, G., 1990,. ‘Thank God, I Said No to AIDS: On the Changing Discourse of AIDS in Uganda’, Discourse & Society 1(1): 61-84.
Uganda Bureau of Statistics, 2007, ‘Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2006’, Kampala: Uganda Bureau of Statistics.
Utas, M., 2005, ‘Victimcy, Girlfriending, Soldiering: Tactic Agency in a Young Woman’s Social Navigation of the Liberian War Zone’, Anthropological Quarterly 78 (2): 403-430.
van Dijk, R., 1992,.’Young Puritan Preachers in Post-Independence Malawi’ Africa 62: 159-181.
van Dijk, R., 1998, ‘Pentecostalism, Cultural Memory and the State: Contested Representations of Time in Postcolonial Malawi’, in R. Werbner. Memory and the Postcolony, London: Zed Books: 155-181.
Vigh, H., 2006,. Navigating Terrains of War: Youth and Soldiering in Guinea- Bissau, New York: Berghahn Books.
Whyte, S. R., and Michael A. Whyte, 1998, ‘The Values of Development: Conceiving Growth and Progress’, in H. B. Hansen, and Michael Twaddle, Developing Uganda.. Oxford: James Currey: 227-244.