The development of a smart political moral economy in Africa: discourse, legitimization, disciplining, and hegemony

IF 1.3 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY
P. Bloom
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This paper uses and expands the concept of a ‘ political moral economy ’ to better understand elite attempts to justify and promote capitalist development strategies linked to the proliferation of ‘ smart technologies ’ such as big data, mobile communications, and the construction of hi-tech cities. Drawing on an Ideology and Discourse analysis perspective on hegemony introduced by Ernesto Laclau and Chantel Mouffe, it aims to show how market-based ‘ smart development ’ across the African continent have discursively incorporate resistance moralities associated with popular critiques of elite corruption, foreign exploitation, and local economic marginalization for its overall political success. To do so, it will focus on the case of ‘ Leapfrogging development ’ discourses and the planned construction of the Technopolis Konza in Kenya. The key advance of this article is showing how dominant ideologies – and the domestic and foreign regimes of elite power they support – can be strengthened through processes of ‘ moral legitimisation ’ and ‘ moral disciplining ’ . Speci fi cally, this moral dimension of hegemony involves the ongoing incorporation and strategic redeployment of existing and emergent normative discourses for the purpose of providing political legitimacy to these governing ideologies and further attempting to normatively regulate populations in accordance with their core values and interests – even in the face of their practical and ongoing failures as policies.
非洲聪明政治道德经济的发展:话语、合法化、纪律和霸权
本文使用并扩展了“政治道德经济学”的概念,以更好地理解精英们试图证明和促进与“智能技术”(如大数据、移动通信和高科技城市建设)扩散相关的资本主义发展战略。利用Ernesto Laclau和Chantel Mouffe对霸权的意识形态和话语分析视角,它旨在展示整个非洲大陆以市场为基础的“明智发展”如何在话语中融入与精英腐败,外国剥削和当地经济边缘化的流行批评相关的抵抗道德,以实现其整体政治成功。为了做到这一点,它将把重点放在“跨越式发展”话语的案例和肯尼亚康扎科技城的计划建设上。本文的关键进展是展示了主导意识形态——以及它们所支持的国内外精英权力政权——如何通过“道德合法化”和“道德纪律化”的过程得到加强。具体来说,霸权的道德维度涉及到现有的和新兴的规范性话语的持续整合和战略重新部署,目的是为这些统治意识形态提供政治合法性,并进一步尝试根据其核心价值和利益规范地规范人口——即使面对其作为政策的实际和持续失败。
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Critical African Studies
Critical African Studies Arts and Humanities-Arts and Humanities (all)
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期刊介绍: Critical African Studies seeks to return Africanist scholarship to the heart of theoretical innovation within each of its constituent disciplines, including Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, History, Law and Economics. We offer authors a more flexible publishing platform than other journals, allowing them greater space to develop empirical discussions alongside theoretical and conceptual engagements. We aim to publish scholarly articles that offer both innovative empirical contributions, grounded in original fieldwork, and also innovative theoretical engagements. This speaks to our broader intention to promote the deployment of thorough empirical work for the purposes of sophisticated theoretical innovation. We invite contributions that meet the aims of the journal, including special issue proposals that offer fresh empirical and theoretical insights into African Studies debates.
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