Corruption as an empty signifier politics and political order in Africa
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 ac...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill
2013.
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| Colección: | African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ;
v. 10. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419805406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
