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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Koechlin, Lucy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Colección:African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.