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Title:'I have plans': scrutinising the meaning, production and sustaining of hope in safe sexual practices among young men in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
Authors:Gibson, DianaISNI
Nadasen, KrishnavelliISNI
Year:2007
Periodical:Anthropology Southern Africa
Volume:30
Issue:1
Pages:1-10
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:motivation
urban youth
urban life
sexuality
Abstract:Drawing on research carried out in Khayelitsha, near Cape Town, South Africa, the authors show how, under difficult circumstances, five young men talk about and use hope as a strategy in their everyday lives. One of the authors' aims is to contest V. Crapanzano's (2003) idea of hope as leading to passivity. They also show how having and promoting hope seems to positively affect sexual practice, in that having hope and plans for a brighter future means that one has to endeavour to remain healthy and thus has to refrain from unsafe sex. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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