De la suffocation comme mode d’existence. Pouvoir et bio-fétichisme du corps au Gabon
In this article, I examine the lexical emergence of the metaphor of “breathing” and “suffocating” after the 2023 coup d’état in Gabon. After looking at the deterioration of living conditions under Omar, then Ali Bongo, I point at how which scholars have failed to study the ways in which popular imag...
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2025
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| Rochtain ar líne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Achoimre: | In this article, I examine the lexical emergence of the metaphor of “breathing” and “suffocating” after the 2023 coup d’état in Gabon. After looking at the deterioration of living conditions under Omar, then Ali Bongo, I point at how which scholars have failed to study the ways in which popular imaginaries did, or did not, re-appropriate the languages and philosophies of biopolitical modes of governance imposed by colonialists since the late nineteenth century. Finally, I historicize the metaphor by showing how it refers both to the global imaginaries born during covid-19 and after the murder of George Floyd, and to ancient transactional cosmologies of power in Central Africa. |
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