Analysing Political Subjectivities
Naming the Post-developmental State in Africa Today
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2308061 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Neocosmos (0000-0003-1316-7427, University of the Western Cape, South Africa and Monash University, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 534-553 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9096 • E-ISSN: 1745-2538 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021909610373895 |
| OpenAlex | W2096343238 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 25 |
Politics, whether that of the state or that constituted beyond the state, must be analysed as thought, as subjectivity. This article proposes to do so in connection with state politics in Africa since independence. It consists of a brief theoretical justification for such a perspective, a methodological stress on the process of elucidating the names around which such politics is deployed, and an application of these conceptions to the politics of the post-colonial African state. It shows that two different forms of state can be elucidated, namely a 'developmental state' form in which parties play a subjective role of mobilizing popular political subjectivities within the state, and a 'post-developmental' state form, hegemonic today, in which a consensus is established between state and civil society organizations. In either case the sites of alternative politics to these state political sequences which arise beyond state subjectivity are briefly elucidated
Colonialism · Epistemology · Hegemony · Independence (probability theory · Political economy · Political science · Political subjectivity · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Subjectivity · African cultural and philosophical studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · International Development and Aid · Law
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Human Rights
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa
Prisoners of Freedom
The Wretched of the Earth
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The TAC's ‘Intellectual Campaign’ (2000–2004)
Predatory, developmental, and other apparatuses
Governance, the State and the Politics of Development
African NGOs
The Politics of Prescription
The missionary position
The Politics of the Governed
A Politics of the Poor
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2020 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |