This article is based on an ethnographic study of the young activists of a South African poor people’s movement. It questions the finding that some of the young poor people in the Global South are trapped by a boredom linked to their socioeconomic incapacity to fully enter into adulthood. Young people are here apprehended through their position within the collective, but also in the framework of the activism they deploy daily in their neighborhoods. The article shows that even though uncertainty has its place there, the lives of these young people cannot be reduced to idleness. Partly built on emotional bonds, their commitment structures their days and gives them access to a politicization that helps them to put their condition into perspective. Above all, it provides them with a valued role within the “community” and, therefore, helps them to fit into their most immediate social environment: their neighborhood.

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在无聊、抗议和社区之间：南非乡镇青年活动家的民族志

本文基于对南非穷人运动的年轻活动家的民族志研究。它质疑以下发现：全球南方的一些年轻贫困者因无法完全进入成年期的社会经济能力而陷入无聊之中。年轻人在这里被逮捕是因为他们在集体中的地位，但也在他们每天在社区中部署的激进主义框架中被捕。文章表明，尽管不确定性在那里占有一席之地，但这些年轻人的生活不能沦为无所事事。部分建立在情感纽带的基础上，他们的承诺塑造了他们的日子，并让他们有机会参与政治化，帮助他们正确看待自己的状况。最重要的是，它为他们提供了在“社区”中的重要角色，因此，