Isbn: 9789004249998 - corruption as an empty signifier: politics and political order in africa (africa-europe group for interdisciplinary studies, band 10) (6 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Octavo, vi, vii, ix, xiii, 283 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Paperback binding. Spine pictorial brown, gray and light blue with white and red lettering. Covers have very mild wear including faint scuffs and scratches. Text block has very slight wear with a few instances of highlights and marginalia to the interior. Illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column T, ND-T. 1398169. FP New Rockville Stock.…

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorLucy 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 corru.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.…