西非资本主义消费主义男性气质的困境：塞拉利昂非正规经济中游弋于性别、阶级和浪漫之间的男性

IF 1.6 3区社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography Pub Date : 2024-08-16 DOI:10.1177/08912416241269890

Joshua Lew McDermott

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在塞拉利昂城市，90% 以上的青年男子在非正规经济部门勉强生存。在经济不发达的挤压下，在21世纪资本主义消费主义文化意识形态的压力下，这些男性面临着生存危机，他们无法满足维持恋爱关系、照顾家庭和实现消费主义男性期望的物质要求。本民族志探讨了这些年轻人如何应对这种脱节，并以阶级为基础对男性气质进行了分析，其核心是好工作的匮乏和非正规工作的盛行，这两者都是当今非洲资本主义的核心特征。

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The Dilemma of Consumerist Masculinity in Capitalist West Africa: Men Navigating Gender, Class, and Romance in Sierra Leone’s Informal Economy

In urban Sierra Leone, more than 90% of young men survive precariously in the informal economy. Squeezed by an underdeveloped economy and the pressure to engage in a culture-ideology of consumerism indicative of twenty-first century capitalism, these men face the existential crisis of being unable to meet the material requirements for maintaining romantic relationships, caring for their families, and fulfilling expectations of a consumerist masculinity. This ethnography explores how these young men navigate this disconnect, grounding its analysis of masculinity in a class-based approach which centers the dearth of good jobs and the prevalence of informal work, both central features of capitalism in Africa today.

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography publishes in-depth investigations of diverse people interacting in their natural environments to produce and communicate meaning. At its best, ethnography captures the strange in the familiar and the familiar in the strange. JCE is committed to pushing the boundaries of ethnographic discovery by building upon its 30+ year tradition of top notch scholarship.