We Are (a Measurable) Family: Affect and Audit in a Toronto HIV/AIDS Service Organisation

Auteurs-es

  • David A.B. Murray Department of Anthropology and Sexuality Studies Program, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.3138/anth.2018-0069.r1

Mots-clés :

VIH/sida, affects, cultures de l’audit, Canada, organisations non gouvernementales

Résumé

Pour célébrer son 30e anniversaire, une organisation de services aux personnes atteintes du VIH/sida à Toronto a organisé un événement intitulé « Family of HIV » (Famille du VIH) lors de son assemblée générale annuelle de 2017. L’interprétation par une drag-queen de l’hymne populaire gai « We Are Family » et une déclaration « d’amour » faite par deux clients à l’organisation ont été suivies des points habituels de l’ordre du jour de l’assemblée annuelle, telles que la lecture du rapport du vérificateur et l’élection des membres du conseil d’administration. Ces actions ont créé un agencement affectif et bureaucratique complexe au sein d’une organisation formée à travers le militantisme par et pour un groupe historiquement marginalisé (les hommes gais infectés par le VIH), mais qui dessert aujourd’hui un groupe diversifié de personnes séropositives et qui est financée par les secteurs public et privé, s’inscrivant ainsi dans un ensemble d’obligations et de responsabilités à différentes échelles envers divers intervenants, notamment les organismes locaux, provinciaux et nationaux de santé et de bien-être. Dans cet article, je soutiens que la performance d’une famille à l’assemblée annuelle privilégie un agencement affectif particulier de relations entre le personnel à temps plein, les clients et les bénévoles, ce qui se produit naturellement dans une culture bureaucratique qui met l’accent sur les données comme mesure de valeur et d’efficacité. Il en résulte une forme de famille étroitement surveillée produite à travers un enchevêtrement dense, personnel et bureaucratique de réglementation, d’aliénation, de soins, de conflits et d’anxiété.

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Murray, D. A. (2020). We Are (a Measurable) Family: Affect and Audit in a Toronto HIV/AIDS Service Organisation. Anthropologica, 62(1), 163–175. https://doi.org/10.3138/anth.2018-0069.r1