Pauvreté, « présentisme » et prévention

Abstract

The result of injunctions to take time on its own terms, prevention seems to pay little attention to the plurality of social times, to their contexts of production and enunciation. As health inequalities partly reside in the ability of individuals to respect preventive norms and thus act today for their future state of health, and as poverty tends to obstruct projecting oneself into the future, we wished to analyze the positions of people in various precarious situations confronted by prevention discourse and the implementation of their own health projects, while placing the "issue" of temporalities at the heart of our research. Depending on different socioeconomic contexts, available resources, anticipating social ascent or drop in status, preventive standards will not be appropriate and experienced the same way. This article makes it clear that under cover of apparently common demands, driven by the desire to adhere to the norm, diverse motivations and practices in reality obtain, largely influenced by socially differentiated regimes of temporality.

Keywords

• Health
• Norm
• Prevention
• Temporalities
• Present
• Autonomy