Abstract
Autore:
Cutolo Armando
Titolo:
"Il lavoro del discorso. Soggettivazione politica e inclusione gerarchica tra i jeunes patriotes ad Abidjan"
The crisis Ivory Coast went through in the last decade, has been enquired by many observers in its connection with the rise of youth as a pivotal actor in the national political arena. In this perspective, processes of political and religious subjectivation of the “jeunes patriotes” have been interpreted by scholars as a means of access to modernity and to full citizenship. The paper, based on field research, draws on the concrete, personal practices of moral and political subjectivation undertaken by young nationalist orators who speak in Abidjan’s public parliaments called “agora”. The ethnography of their daily life, their performances in public spaces and their management by political leaders, shows how becoming an orator and a nationalist full-time militant leads to paths of access to status, inclusion and economic resources. On the other side, it is shown how the same path leads to subjection through forms of self-discipline and subordination going beyond the public-political domain and affecting the militant’s self.
