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Articles · Vol. 45 No 1 (2020): Afrique et développement

The Turbulent 2010s: A Historical Draft

  • Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
    Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
    Vice Chancellor, United States International University – Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. Email: pzeleza@gmail.com
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Résumé

Les années 2010 ont été une décennie exceptionnellement turbulente, caractérisée par des changements complexes et contradictoires aux niveaux local, régional et mondial. Les changements ont affecté tous les domaines, du politique à l’économique, ainsi que les dimensions sociale, culturelle et environnementale de la société mondiale. Cet article identifie et analyse six tendances importantes de la trajectoire historique de cette période. Premièrement, la décennie a été marquée par une intense polarisation politique dans de nombreux pays; deuxièmement, il y eut les récessions démocratiques et la résistance en certains lieux ; troisièmement, c’était les inégalités économiques et le déséquilibre croissants; la quatrième était le changement de hiérarchies et des hégémonies mondiales; cinquièmement, il y avait l'émergence du capitalisme de surveillance; et la dernière fut la rébellion de la nature, évidente dans les conditions météorologiques extrêmes et les luttes mondiales contre le changement climatique. En analysant ces tendances, l'article tente de donner un sens aux complexités désordonnées, aux contradictions troublantes et aux changements massifs des diverses conjonctures historiques de la modernité.

The Turbulent 2010s: A Historical Draft

The 2010s was an exceptionally turbulent decade characterised by complex and contradictory changes at local, regional and global levels. The changes encompassed all spheres from the political to the economic, as well as the social, cultural, and environmental dimensions of global society. This article identifies and analyses six key trends in the historical trajectory of the period. First, the decade was marked by intense political polarization in many countries; second, was the democratic recessions and resistance in some climes; third, was the rising economic inequalities and disequilibrium; fourth was the shift in global hierarchies and hegemonies; fifth, was the emergence of surveillance capitalism; and the final one was the rebellion of nature as evident in extreme weather conditions and global struggles over climate change. In analysing these key trends the article seeks to make sense of the messy complexities, mind boggling contradictions and massive changes of the various historical conjunctures of modernity.

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  • Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

    Vice Chancellor, United States International University – Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. Email: pzeleza@gmail.com

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