Let’s Clean Up and Bring Some Order Here! Moral Regulation of Markets in Yaoundé, Cameroon
通过喀麦隆雅温得市场重建的民族志研究，分析道德监管项目如何被实施、体验、转化和抵制，揭示道德工作如何基于个人反思并通过人际关系协商。
This study examines activities and processes through which projects of moral regulation are implemented as well as lived, transformed, and resisted by their targeted actors. Our ethnographic study focuses on discourses and practices of civic duty for orderly and hygienic conduct in the rehabilitation of marketplaces in Yaoundé, Cameroon. By drawing on the inhabited institutions approach and the literature on ethics as practice, our analysis extends research on moral work to put forward a perspective on moral regulation as a situated practice. We show how moral work is built on individual reflections but is simultaneously negotiated through actors’ relationships, that is, responsibilities to family, interactions within the community, and personal history.