This book uses empirical research to bring together a broad range of protest contexts in twelve chapters. From the formation of Maroon societies in the early colonial period, to female mobilisation in authoritarian contexts, via urban youth culture, women or mineworkers in trade unionism, as well as pro- and anti- gay rights activists, the protagonists here all insist upon their rights to protest in a variety of ways. Sometimes popular protest is expressed through religion, often (and sometimes violently) by young people, exasperated by their long wait for social achievement. Electoral wars and the formation of militias reveal a geography of violence in urban areas, which, in some sectarian excesses, can be displaced to rural areas, as described in the study on Boko Haram.
Cet ouvrage regroupe un eventail comprenant douze contextes de contestation. De la formation de communautes marronnes au debut de la colonisation, aux mobilisations feminines en contexte autoritaire, en passant par les cultures urbaines, les cultures syndicales des femmes et des travailleurs dans les mines, les contestations pro ou contre la liberte des homosexuels, tous font prevaloir leur pouvoir de contestation de maniere plurielle. La voie religieuse est un domaine ou s'exerce parfois de maniere violente, les protestations de populations souvent jeunes, en attente de mobilite sociale. Les guerres electorales et la constitution de milices dessinent une geographie de la violence en milieu urbain, violence qui trouve a se deplacer en milieu rural dans certaines derives sectaires comme en temoigne l'etude sur Boko Haram.
Contributors are:
Remy Bazenguissa-Ganga, Raphael Botiveau, Christophe Broqua, Michel Cahen,Thomas Fouquet, Adam Hizagi, Alcinda Honwana, Alexander Keese, Marie-Nathalie LeBlanc, Dominique Malaquais, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle, Ophelie Rillon, Johanna Simeant, Benjamin Soares, Kadya Tall.
