Domains of politics and modes of rule / Sphères politiques et contrôle étatique: Political structures of the neocolonial state in Africa / Les structu

By Michael Neocosmos

This work consists of a brief attempt to orient the study of the neocolonial state in Africa through an assessment of the manner in which it rules its people. It is argued that the state produces different modes of rule by deploying different politics over different parts of the population. In this manner, it can combine a genuinely democratic rule in the image of the West over some while subjecting the majority to colonial forms of domination. Imported political subjectivities from the West and its obsession with human rights discourse are reserved largely for a sphere of civil society in which the right to have rights is conferred upon citizens. In the domains of uncivil society and traditional society, the right to rights is not observed by the state so that different subjectivities, regularly including violence, govern the manner political problems and solutions are addressed both by the state and by people. In consequence, distinct political subjectivities prevail in the conceptualization of popular resistance in all three domains, and it becomes difficult to rally such different concerns and conceptions within an overall anti-neocolonial struggle. Il s'agit d'une br ve tentative d'orienter l' tude de l' tat n ocolonial en Afrique travers une valuation de la mani re dont il gouverne son peuple. On soutient que l' tat produit diff rents modes de contr le tatique en d ployant diff rentes politiques sur diff rentes parties de la population. De cette mani re, il peut combiner une r gle v ritablement d mocratique l'image de l'Occident sur certains tout en soumettant la majorit des formes coloniales de domination. Les subjectivit s politiques import es de l'Occident et son obsession du discours sur les droits de l'homme sont largement r serv es une sph re de la soci t civile dans laquelle le droit d'avoir des droits est conf r aux citoyens. Dans les domaines de la soci t incivile et de la soci t traditionnelle, le droit aux droits n'est pas respect par l' tat, de sorte que diff rentes subjectivit s, y compris r guli rement la violence, r gissent la mani re dont les probl mes politiques et leurs solutions sont abord s la fois par l' tat et par le peuple. En cons quence, des subjectivit s politiques distinctes pr valent dans la conceptualisation de la r sistance populaire dans chacun des trois domaines, et il devient difficile de rallier des pr occupations et des conceptions aussi diff rentes au sein d'une lutte anticoloniale nation

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1990263771
• ISBN13: 9781990263774
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Daraja Press
• Length: 46 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"