| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 159 pages) |
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Interventions |
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Interventions (Routledge (Firm))
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| Contents |
Negotiating Corruption- Front Cover; Negotiating Corruption; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Negotiation; Corruption and colonialism ; Civil society ; The 'national' NGOs ; Working with, and studying ; The terrain ; Notes ; Chapter 1: A simple question: What is corruption?; Origins ; Neo-patrimonialism -- explaining African corruption ; The public and the private ; Discourses of legitimacy and the everyday ; Corruption as culture ; Definitions -- why the nature of corruption is not such a simple question ; Notes |
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Chapter 2: Transformation and slippageCorruption, governance, politics ; Corruption as normative condemnation ; Transformative ; Governmentality, governmentalities ; Immiscible governance ; Mixtures ; Hybrid governmentalities ; Notes ; Chapter 3: The local and the international as legitimacy; The local as the place to be ; Performing the local and the international ; The ambivalent excess of the international ; Engagements with the international ; Non-traditional, traditional rulers ; Negotiating not straddling ; Locating the local ; Notes ; Chapter 4: The good, the bad and the NGO |
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Obtaining rather than demanding accountability Serving 'the people' ; Personal connection and procedural rationality ; Funding, per diems and altruism ; Getting the job done ; NGOs doing good? ; Notes ; Chapter 5: Neither global governmentality nor local resistance; Discourses of corruption, governance and the production of two states ; The public-plural mentalities of governance? ; The fully-functioning state ; NGOs -- apparatus of global governmentality ; Conclusion -- translation and entanglement; Notes ; Chapter 6: Mimicking NGOs: Negotiating corruption; Same or/and other |
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Mimicry -- doubling The supplementary does not add up nor simply oppose ; Hybridity, agency and limits ; Negotiation and survival ; Inclusion, exclusion ... schizophrenia?; Notes ; List of interviews; CHRO ; Women's Organisation ; Health Organisation ; Other ; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Negotiating Corruption demands that we think again about corruption in Africa. It problematises the framing of African corruption as a phenomenon that emerges from a clash between two sets of norms. Moreover, it highlights the colonial legacies of this frame, which situates African corruption within continually recurring debates about the political inclusion or banishment of 'others'. NGOs are characterised as intermediaries between the local and the international, and between the state and the population. In both of these roles they are understood to reform governance by bringing about changes in culture and instituting bureaucratic norms. They have, therefore, been seen as part of the apparatus of a global liberal governmentality. This book complicates this portrayal and highlights the ambiguous role of liberal governmentality through an exploration of the 'grey practices' of the NGOs that were studied. These practices are 'grey' because they do not fit the pattern of virtuous NGOs holding the state to account described in development policy, yet at the same time they ensure that the state produces the outcomes that a fully-functioning state ought to. This enacting of oppositional and antagonistic elements is further unpacked in conversation with Homi Bhabha's concepts of negotiation and hybridity. Negotiating Corruption draws attention to both the limitations of current explanations of corruption in Africa and the problematic way in which they are framed. The book's detailed engagement with understandings of corruption within policy and academic debates will make it a useful resource for undergraduate teaching. It will also be of keen interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students who engage with the issues of corruption, NGOs, civil society, African politics, governmentality, and hybridity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-154) |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Political corruption -- Africa, West
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Non-governmental organizations -- Africa, West
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Non-governmental organizations
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Political corruption
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West Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317216247 |
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1317216245 |
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9781317398509 |
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1317398505 |
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