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内容

Since the ‘political conditionalities’ which had accompanied the Structural Adjustment Programmes of the 1980s and 90s in Africa, most states on the continent have been characterised by the formal trappings of representative democracy such as regular multi-party elections, civil societies, more-or-less hegemonic human rights discourse, constitutions if not always constitutionalism, variable ‘good governance’ and other supposed democratic institutions. The one-party state and its erstwhile ethnic foundations are today less in evidence, while so-called civil society is said to be a watchdog over the state’s adherence to democratic norms. The rise of the democratic state was said to lead to the decline in political violence as institutionalised multipartyism was to provide for peaceful political competition through a process of ‘transitional justice’. Yet the exercise of violence by the democratic state and other forces has not subsided and was particularly in evidence throughout the continent during the Covid pandemic. Referring to the case of South Africa in particular, I will show that the state’s deployment of violence is not occasional but systematic. In the talk I will therefore ask the question: How is it possible for a democratic state to engage in systematic violence over the masses of its people? To answering this question, I will argue that state political violence in Africa is systemic. I propose to do so by outlining the main features of a theory of the state in Africa as a neocolonial state exhibiting distinct modes of rule over different sections of its population within what I call clearly distinct ‘domains’ or ‘spheres’ of political activity.

講師

Prof. Michael Neocosmos

コメンテーター

梅屋 潔（神戸大学、教授）

日時・場所

2025年9月29日（月）
15時00分～17時00分
京都大学稲盛財団記念館３階中会議室

言語

英語（通訳なし）

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