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Author Koechlin, Lucy

Title Corruption as an empty signifier : politics and political order in Africa / by Lucy Koechlin
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013
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Description 1 online resource
Series Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; v. 10
African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 10.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
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Subject Political corruption -- Africa
Democratization -- Africa
TRUE CRIME -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Democratization
Political corruption
Politics and government
SUBJECT Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001573
Subject Africa
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004252981
9004252983
1299638333
9781299638334