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.

本研究考察了道德规范项目的实施、生活、转变和被目标行为者抵制的活动和过程。我们的人种学研究侧重于在喀麦隆雅温得恢复市场时，公民义务的话语和实践，以实现有序和卫生的行为。通过借鉴居住制度方法和伦理作为实践的文献，我们的分析扩展了对道德工作的研究，提出了将道德规范作为一种情境实践的观点。我们展示了道德工作如何建立在个人反思的基础上，但同时通过参与者的关系进行协商，即对家庭的责任、社区内的互动和个人历史。