ABSTRACT

This article sheds light on subterranean and subjective dimensions that shape specific sectors of African middle-classes: processes of personal subjectivation, understood as the construction of oneself as an actor of one’s own life, against the hold of political, cultural or economic domination. Cameroon offers an insightful case study. Most of the country’s middle-class owns its status and economic situation to the regime’s patronage system. However, our series of biographical interviews shows the emergence of new subjectivities in citizens who decided to change the course of their lives following the 1990s democratic protests. Members of this ‘indocile middle-class’ have prioritised the development of economic, media or cultural projects that have allowed them to implement different values and set up spaces that escape the cultural and social control of the political regime and may contribute to a more democratic and better developed Cameroon.

摘要

本文阐明了塑造非洲中产阶级特定阶层的地下和主观维度：个人主观化的过程，被理解为将自己建构为自己生活的参与者，反对政治、文化或经济支配。喀麦隆提供了一个富有洞察力的案例研究。该国的大多数中产阶级拥有其地位和经济状况，以保护该政权的制度。然而，我们的一系列传记访谈显示，在 1990 年代的民主抗议之后，决定改变生活轨迹的公民出现了新的主观性。这个“顽固的中产阶级”的成员优先发展经济，