Une nouvelle forme de renoncement ?

In Japan, so-called hikikomori are young people who stay shut up at home, usually in their bedroom at their parent’s house. This withdrawal lasts a long time, from six months to several years. By comparing cases observed in Japan, France and also Tuareg country, the article questions this confinemen...

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Main Author: Cristina Figueiredo
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative 2019-07-01
Series:Ateliers d'Anthropologie
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/11419
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description In Japan, so-called hikikomori are young people who stay shut up at home, usually in their bedroom at their parent’s house. This withdrawal lasts a long time, from six months to several years. By comparing cases observed in Japan, France and also Tuareg country, the article questions this confinement: can it be compared to a kind of renunciation? Or is it rather a complaint directed at those chose to them, a paradoxical way of expressing, through the confined body, the impossibility of involvement in public space where they cannot find their place? It is as if, by placing himself outside the world like an initiate or hermit, the person were seeking a way out of his suffering, by avoiding confronting it. The fear of a kind of self-defragmentation might explain the behaviour of those young people. Predominantly boys on the threshold of the transition to adulthood, they avoid subjecting their bodies to the temptation of desire, in a world where self-overexposure is becoming mandatory.
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Une nouvelle forme de renoncement ?
Ateliers d'Anthropologie
Japan
France
confinement
mental health
social withdrawal
Tuareg
title Une nouvelle forme de renoncement ?
title_full Une nouvelle forme de renoncement ?
title_fullStr Une nouvelle forme de renoncement ?
title_full_unstemmed Une nouvelle forme de renoncement ?
title_short Une nouvelle forme de renoncement ?
title_sort une nouvelle forme de renoncement
topic Japan
France
confinement
mental health
social withdrawal
Tuareg
url https://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/11419
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