Rally Day

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2023-05-05 DOI:10.1215/08992363-10575845

Danny Hoffman

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Abstract

March 5, 2018, was the final rally day for the Sierra Leone People's Party prior to that country's national elections. The SLPP held its last day of public demonstrations in Bo, the country's second largest city and primary urban center in the Mende-dominant southeast. As was true of other political parties in other cities and other elections in Sierra Leone's turbulent past, violence played a key role in structuring rally day events and participants’ experiences of them. And yet this violence has not always been the same. In 2018 the beating of a young man by a rally crowd was in some ways unexceptional, both in Sierra Leonean politics and in the postcolonial response to urban crime. And yet it marked a subtle shift in both Sierra Leonean electoral politics and in the way such vigilante justice in African cities is interpreted. Contrasting the ethnographic elements of this single day with other representations of crowd violence in West Africa, the article explores an urban landscape that complicates the distinction between political and nonpolitical violence and between the presence and absence of the postcolonial state.

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集会的一天

2018年3月5日是塞拉利昂人民党在全国大选前的最后一次集会日。SLPP在薄熙市举行了最后一天的公众示威活动。薄熙市是巴西第二大城市，也是门德党主导的东南部的主要城市中心。与塞拉利昂动荡的过去其他城市的其他政党和其他选举一样，暴力在组织集会日活动和参与者的经历中发挥了关键作用。然而，这种暴力并不总是相同的。2018年，一名年轻男子被集会人群殴打的事件在某种程度上并不罕见，无论是在塞拉利昂政治中，还是在后殖民时期对城市犯罪的回应中。然而，它标志着塞拉利昂选举政治的微妙转变，以及对非洲城市这种治安维持正义的解释方式。这篇文章将这一天的民族志元素与西非其他人群暴力的表现进行对比，探讨了一个城市景观，使政治暴力与非政治暴力之间的区别变得复杂，以及后殖民国家的存在与不存在之间的区别。

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Public Culture Multiple-

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2.10

自引率

6.70%

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