ABSTRACT

Since Tahir Square, a series of movements and uprisings have spread around Africa. Redefining themselves as “citizens” movements to emphasise their “rights”, one of the most significant characteristics is their tendency to couch their aspirations in terms that resonate the liberal moral order. Yet in so doing they also create a new subjectivity and redefine democracy, development and human rights. With the cases of Y'en a Marre in Senegal, and LUCHA in DRC, the article analyses this rearticulation, not as reproducing the dominant discourse, but as a reversed discourse that criticises and challenges the status quo. Following Foucault's approach, the paper embraces the circular, contradictory and tactical nature of discourses, but expands it with African political theory and resistance theory to articulate resistance as acts that attack and subvert power at the same time that create new subjectivities.

摘要

自塔希尔广场以来，一系列运动和起义在非洲蔓延开来。将自己重新定义为“公民”运动以强调他们的“权利”，最重要的特征之一是他们倾向于用与自由道德秩序产生共鸣的术语来表达他们的愿望。然而，他们这样做也创造了一种新的主​​体性，并重新定义了民主、发展和人权。文章以塞内加尔的 Y'en a Marre 和 DRC 的 LUCHA 为例，分析这种重新表述，不是再现主流话语，而是批判和挑战现状的逆向话语。遵循福柯的方法，这篇论文包含了话语的循环、矛盾和策略性质，