ZAMBIAN CHILDREN'S IMAGINAL CARING: On Fantasy, Play, and Anticipation in an Epidemic
ZAMBIAN CHILDREN'S IMAGINAL CARING: On Fantasy, Play, and Anticipation in an Epidemic
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10.14506/ca34.2.01
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发表时间：
2019-05-01
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1.9
通讯作者：
Hunleth, Jean
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作者：
Hunleth, Jean
基于在赞比亚卢萨卡的民族志田野调查，本文提出了想象关怀的概念，以检验一种幻想的、夸张的和反事实的关怀形式。为了发展这一概念，我以年幼的儿童（8到12岁）为研究对象，这些儿童与患有结核病和艾滋病毒的人一起生活。孩子们在很多方面都参与了日常的照顾。此外，由于她们的社会地位、获得资源的渠道以及身材娇小，她们在给予和表达关怀方面的努力也受到了限制。通过一系列的例子，我展示了孩子们创造和玩照顾家庭成员的视觉形象的方式，这些形象通常是过去、现在和未来的。我展示了儿童参与照顾的幻想和图像不仅表达了他们关心他人，而且作为他们提供或执行照顾的方式。儿童如果不能照顾他人，就会面临很高的社会和个人风险，儿童为照顾他人所做的努力在想象中回应了这种风险，他们设想的未来不同于全球卫生话语为他们设定的未来，也不同于他们出生时所处的边缘化和排斥条件。
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Lusaka, Zambia, this article puts forth the concept of imaginal caring to examine a form of caring that is fantastical, exaggerated, and counterfactual. To develop this concept, I take the vantage point of young children (ages eight through twelve) who lived in households with persons who were suffering from tuberculosis and HIV. The children were involved in providing day-to-day care in many ways. They were also constrained in their efforts to give and show care because of their social positions, their access to resources, and their small human bodies. Through a series of examples, I demonstrate the ways in which children created and played with often visual images of giving care to family members in the past, present, and future. I show that fantastical imaginations and images of children's involvement in caring not only expressed that they cared for others but also served as ways for them to provide or perform care. There were high social and personal stakes for children in not being able to care for others, and children's efforts to care imaginally responded to such stakes, envisioning futures different from those scripted for them by global health discourses and the conditions of marginalization and exclusion into which they were born.