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100 1 _aKoechlin, Lucy.
245 1 0 _aCorruption as an empty signifier :
_bpolitics and political order in Africa /
_cby Lucy Koechlin.
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c2013.
300 _a1 online resource (xiii, 283 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aAfrica-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ;
_vv. 10
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-280) and index.
505 0 0 _aPreliminary Material -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aCorruption 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.
650 0 _aPolitical corruption
_zAfrica.
650 0 _aDemocratization
_zAfrica.
651 0 _aAfrica
_xPolitics and government
_y1960-
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tCorruption as an Empty Signifier: Politics and Political Order in Africa
_dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, 2013,
_z9789004249998
830 0 _aAfrica-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies
_v10.
830 0 _aSocial Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248755.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004252981
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