Laura S. Martin, C. Bradbury‐Jones, Simeon Koroma, Stephen Forcer
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摘要
本文探讨幽默在促进塞拉利昂性暴力和性别暴力(SGBV)宣传方面的理论和实践作用。虽然幽默可能被认为是处理棘手问题的一种麻木不仁的方式,但这个项目表明,不协调实际上可以是富有成效的。认识到幽默本身在某些情况下可能是一种象征性或身体暴力,我们认为幽默是一种开启关于暴力(在本例中为SGBV)对话的手段,以解决与之相关的社会和法律挑战。我们的试点项目由一个跨学科团队设计,并与塞拉利昂诉诸司法的非政府组织timmap for Justice合作,利用喜剧和表演来应对两个关键挑战:传播与性暴力相关的社会和法律问题,以及就性暴力的经历展开更广泛的讨论。利用焦点小组和访谈的经验证据,本文展示了幽默方法如何被证明是一种富有成效的参与模式,并研究了关键概念,包括“笑声的邻近”(涉及幽默的空间和人际方面),笑声和记忆之间的联系,以及生活经验,幽默和暴力之间的矛盾关系。
Bringing inside out: humour, outreach, and sexual and gender-based violence in Sierra Leone
This article explores the theoretical and practical role(s) of humour in facilitating outreach about sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Sierra Leone. While humour might be considered an insensitive way of approaching difficult issues, this project shows that incongruity can in fact be productive. Recognizing that humour itself can be a form of symbolic or physical violence in some contexts, we argue that humour is a means of opening up conversations about violence (in this case SGBV) in order to address the social and legal challenges associated with it. Our pilot project – devised by an interdisciplinary team and conducted in partnership with a Sierra Leonean access-to-justice NGO, Timap for Justice – used comedy and performance to meet two key challenges: to disseminate awareness about social and legal issues related to commonplace practices of SGBV, and to open up a broader discussion about experiences of SGBV. Using empirical evidence from focus groups and interviews, this article shows how a humorous approach proved to be a productive mode of engagement and examines key concepts including ‘the vicinity of laughter’ (involving the spatial and interpersonal aspects of humour), the connections between laughter and memory, and the paradoxical relationship between lived experience, humour and violence.
期刊介绍:
Critical African Studies seeks to return Africanist scholarship to the heart of theoretical innovation within each of its constituent disciplines, including Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, History, Law and Economics. We offer authors a more flexible publishing platform than other journals, allowing them greater space to develop empirical discussions alongside theoretical and conceptual engagements. We aim to publish scholarly articles that offer both innovative empirical contributions, grounded in original fieldwork, and also innovative theoretical engagements. This speaks to our broader intention to promote the deployment of thorough empirical work for the purposes of sophisticated theoretical innovation. We invite contributions that meet the aims of the journal, including special issue proposals that offer fresh empirical and theoretical insights into African Studies debates.