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Gérard Amougou holds a doctorate in political and social sciences from the University of Liège and a doctorate in political science from the University of Yaoundé II. His research focuses on human rights and political development in Africa, individualization/subjectivization and the problematic of the individual subject. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Yaoundé II, in the project “The Developmental State Strikes Back ? The Rise of New Global Powers and African States’ Development Strategies”. This research program is financed jointly by the Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research (FNS) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). Gérard Amougou is a researcher at CERDAP (UYII), Paul Ango Ela Foundation (Yaoundé) and South Pole (ULiège). He is also a visiting researcher at the CriDIS/SMAG (UCL) and a founding member of the Dynamique de Recherche en Sciences Politiques et Sociales (DReSPS).
A major factor in the current turbulence of global society, the power of weakness would undermine the realistic reading of international relations. The failure of the Westphalian model would give way to ...
This article explores, from a sociohistorical and sociobiographical standpoint, the conditions of emergence of the sovereign-citizen in Cameroon. Prior to the structuring of a dynamic society, self-determination is rooted in individual subjectivity, ...
Subjectivization would be at the heart of contemporary social movements. Based on a critical and analytical reading of the book edited by Geoffrey Pleyers and Brieg Capitaine, this review revisits the theoretical ...
On the basis of his latest book, Policies of Enmity, recently published by La Découverte, this contribution questions the centrality of the notion of subject in the work of Achille Mbembe. Confronted ...
Si la question de l’individualisation reste largement à écrire au sein des sociétés occidentales, le traitement de l’individualité dans le Reste-du-monde semble davantage pressant. L’ouvrage collectif dirigé par Emmanuel Lozerand esquisse un ...
