Corruption as an Empty Signifier: Politics and Political Order in Africa (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, Band 10) - Softcover

Koechlin, Lucy

 
9789004249998: Corruption as an Empty Signifier: Politics and Political Order in Africa (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, Band 10)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9004249990 ISBN 13: 9789004249998
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Corruption as an Empty Signifier critically explores the ways in which corruption in Africa has been equated with African politics and political order, and offers a novel approach to understanding corruption as a potentially emancipatory discourse of political transformation.
Conventionally, both academic literature as well as development policies depict corruption as the lynchpin of politics in Africa, locking African societies into political orders which subvert democratic change. Drawing on the findings of a case study of the construction industry in Tanzania, Lucy Koechlin conceptualises corruption as a signifier enabling, rather than preventing, social actors to articulate democratic claims. She provides compelling arguments for a more sophisticated understanding of and empirical attentiveness to emancipatory change in African political orders.

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Lucy Koechlin, Ph.D. (2010), University of Basel, is senior lecturer of Social Anthropology. Previously, she worked as international expert on governance. She has published and co-edited numerous contributions on corruption and accountability, including Non-state Actors as Standard Setters (CUP, 2009).

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Verlag
BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9004249990
ISBN 13 
9789004249998
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
283
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