La démobilisation collective au Cameroun : entre régime postautoritaire et militantisme extraverti
Collective Demobilization in Cameroon: Between Post-authoritarian Regime and Extrovert Activism There is no denying that collective mobilization in Cameroon around the political and economic problems in the country, presided by the same chief of state, Paul Biya, since 1982, is very weak. A &qu...
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2008
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Gaia: | Collective Demobilization in Cameroon: Between
Post-authoritarian Regime and Extrovert Activism
There is no denying that collective mobilization in
Cameroon around the political and economic problems in the country,
presided by the same chief of state, Paul Biya, since 1982, is very weak. A
"post-authoritarian" regime and the strong political extroversion largely
explain the dearth of social movements. The successive triumphs of the single
party and its intimacy with the state apparatus have led to the domination of
a power wielded by instilling fear. This negative assessment of power
struggles between the authorities and any mobilized actors is coupled with a
low level of autonomy in selecting and formulating causes to defend. The
extroversion of collective action in fact leads to importing causes that are not
specific to Cameroon. But appropriation of these causes in political or
symbolic terms is prohibited in the post-authoritarian space: The restriction
of political time to the here and now and the monopolization of political
utterance constitute obstacles that are difficult to overcome to formulate
common causes. Lastly, the state's obstruction of external collective actors
prevents those who have mobilized from getting involved in public action.
Furthermore, they must compete with international actors implicated in
political reforms without challenging power relations. |
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