Corruption as an empty signifier: politics and political order in Africa
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Main Author: Koechlin, Lucy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2013
Series:African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) v. 10
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Corruption, politics, and Africa -- 1. The academic discourse: political order and corruption in Africa -- 2. Sketching out an emancipatory discourse: corruption, political spaces and social imaginaries -- Interlude: a topography of corruption in Tanzania -- 3. Democratic spaces in the making? Professional associations and corruption in 2003 -- 4. Closures of democratic spaces? Professional associations and corruption in 2010 -- Conclusions: Corruption, politics, and political order
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:1299638333
9004249990
9004252983
9781299638334
9789004249998
9789004252981

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