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.
\nIl s\u2019agit d\u2019une br\u00e8ve tentative d\u2019orienter l\u2019\u00e9tude de l\u2019\u00c9tat n\u00e9ocolonial en Afrique \u00e0 travers une \u00e9valuation de la mani\u00e8re dont il gouverne son peuple. On soutient que l\u2019\u00c9tat produit diff\u00e9rents modes de contr\u00f4le \u00e9tatique en d\u00e9ployant diff\u00e9rentes politiques sur diff\u00e9rentes parties de la population. De cette mani\u00e8re, il peut combiner une r\u00e8gle v\u00e9ritablement d\u00e9mocratique \u00e0 l\u2019image de l\u2019Occident sur certains tout en soumettant la majorit\u00e9 \u00e0 des formes coloniales de domination. Les subjectivit\u00e9s politiques import\u00e9es de l\u2019Occident et son obsession du discours sur les droits de l\u2019homme sont largement r\u00e9serv\u00e9es \u00e0 une sph\u00e8re de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile dans laquelle le droit d\u2019avoir des droits est conf\u00e9r\u00e9 aux citoyens. Dans les domaines de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 incivile et de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00ab traditionnelle \u00bb, le droit aux droits n\u2019est pas respect\u00e9 par l\u2019\u00c9tat, de sorte que diff\u00e9rentes subjectivit\u00e9s, y compris r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement la violence, r\u00e9gissent la mani\u00e8re dont les probl\u00e8mes politiques et leurs solutions sont abord\u00e9s \u00e0 la fois par l\u2019\u00c9tat et par le peuple. En cons\u00e9quence, des subjectivit\u00e9s politiques distinctes pr\u00e9valent dans la conceptualisation de la r\u00e9sistance populaire dans chacun des trois domaines, et il devient difficile de rallier des pr\u00e9occupations et des conceptions aussi diff\u00e9rentes au sein d\u2019une lutte anticoloniale nation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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.
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