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Regimes of Responsibility in Africa

Regimes of Responsibility in Africa

Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts

Edited by
Benjamin Rubbers and Alessandro Jedlowski

First published in 2020 by

Berghahn Books

www.berghahnbooks.com

2020 Benjamin Rubbers and Alessandro Jedlowski

All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Rubbers, Benjamin, editor. | Jedlowski, Alessandro, editor.

Title: Regimes of responsibility in Africa : genealogies, rationalities and
conflicts / edited by Benjamin Rubbers and Alessandro Jedlowski.

Description: New York : Berghahn Books, 2020 | Includes bibliographical

references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019030413 (print) | LCCN 2019030414 (ebook) | ISBN
9781789203592 (hardback) | ISBN 9781789203608 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Responsibility--Africa. | Responsibility--Social
aspects--Africa. | Ethics--Africa. | Africa--Social conditions--21st
century.

Classification: LCC BJ1451 .R44 2019 (print) | LCC BJ1451 (ebook) | DDC
170--dc23

LC record available at hcps://lccn.loc.gov/2019030413

LC ebook record available at hcps://lccn.loc.gov/2019030414

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-1-78920-359-2 hardback

ISBN 978-1-78920-360-8 ebook

Contents

Introduction
Regimes of Responsibility in Africa: Towards a New Theoretical Approach

Benjamin Rubbers and Alessandro Jedlowski

Chapter 1
Historical Regimes of Responsibility in the Politics of the Belly

Jean-Franois Bayart

Chapter 2
The Use(fulness) of Discourses of Responsibility on the DRCs Sovereign Frontier

Stylianos Moshonas

Chapter 3
High Officials Responsibility and State Accountability in the Age of Neoliberal Discharge: Views from Mozambique

Rozenn Nakanabo Diallo

Chapter 4
Reproduction, Responsibility and Citizenship in Cte dIvoire

Giulia Almagioni and Armando Cutolo

Chapter 5
Human Care or Human Capital? Corporate Responsibility and HIV Management at South Africas Mines

Dinah Rajak

Chapter 6
What Are People with Disabilities Responsible For? The Study of Political, Social and Family Responsibilities in the Context of Locomotor Disability (Cape Flats, South Africa)

Marie Schnitzler

Chapter 7
Diverting Makila Mabe: Understanding Responsibility in Kinshasas Pentecostal Worlds

Katrien Pype

Chapter 8
The (Ir)Responsible Witch: Ambiguities among the Maka of Southeast Cameroon

Peter Geschiere

Chapter 9
The Return of Culture: Spiritual Threats, Asylum Policies and the Responsibility of Anthropological Knowledge

Roberto Beneduce

Illustrations

Figures

Table

Abbreviations

AFD	Agence Franaise de Dveloppement
AIBEF	Association Ivoirenne pour le Bien-tre Familial
ANAC	National Administration for Conservation Areas
ANC	African National Congress
AQIM	Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
BEE	Black Economic Empowerment
CEI	Economic and Social Council
CIAT	Comit International dAccompagnement la Transition
DfID	Department for International Development
DNAC	National Directorate for Conservation Areas
DRC	Democratic Republic of Congo
ECOSOC	United Nations Economic and Social Council
FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization
Frelimo	The Mozambique Liberation Front
ICPD	International Conference on Population and Development
IGF	Fondation Internationale pour la Gestion de la Faune
IMF	International Monetary Fund
INSS	National Institute of Social Security
MDM	Movimento Democratico de Moambique
MITUR	Ministry of Tourism
MONUSCO	United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
NUM	National Union of Mines
R2P	Responsibility to Protect
Renamo	The Mozambican National Resistance
SADC	Southern African Development Community
SASSA	South African Social Security Agency
UNDP	United Nations Development Programme
UNFPA	United Nations Fund for Population
UNHCR	Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
USAID	United States Agency for International Development
WHO	World Health Organization

Introduction

Regimes of Responsibility in Africa

Towards a New Theoretical Approach

Benjamin Rubbers and Alessandro Jedlowski

This edited collection of essays analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa since the early 1990s. This period has been marked among other things by the return of electoral politics, the eruption of violent conflicts, the introduction of neoliberal reforms and increased foreign investment, the multiplication of religious movements, the exponential growth of migration fluxes, the emergence of new media, and the explosion of the AIDS pandemic. The core assumption of this book is that, even though they have not affected the continents different countries in the same way, these changes have contributed to multiplying discourses around responsibility, which have transformed the way in which it is imagined, discussed and organized in African societies. The concept of responsibility has indeed become one of the key moral ideas through which these societies think about, and act upon, their present and future configurations.

To discuss this central hypothesis, the books contributions examine the discourses and practices of responsibility in nine different settings, and they reflect on the broader changes in the regimes of responsibility in which they take part. In each chapter, these changes are studied from at least one of the following angles:

(a) The manner in which responsibility is enacted and conceptualized by different institutions (such as international organizations, Pentecostal churches or multinational corporations) or categories of actors (such as witch doctors, government officials or researchers)

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