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Negotiating corruption: NGOs, governance and hybridity in West Africa
In: Interventions
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.
Doing God's time: Time, religion and reform in Ghanaian prisons
In: Political geography: an interdisciplinary journal for all students of political studies with an interest in the geographical and spatial aspects, Band 106, S. 102955
ISSN: 0962-6298
The carceral: Beyond, around, through and within prison walls
In: Political geography: an interdisciplinary journal for all students of political studies with an interest in the geographical and spatial aspects, Band 57, S. 105-108
ISSN: 0962-6298
Teaching Africa, presenting, representing and the importance of who is in the classroom
In: Politics, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 482-494
ISSN: 1467-9256
Teaching Africa within international relations (IR) carries a responsibility to engage students with the power relations that dominate Africa's global position and 'western' knowledge of the continent. The key contribution of this article is to highlight the significance of difference and power relations not only when these are manifested in the identities present within the classroom but also just as importantly when they are not. The article argues that positionality and representations profoundly shape engagement with Africa. Who is in the classroom particularly matters when teaching material embedded in ongoing colonial relations. Disrupting students' assumptions, such as their alignment with Western actors who will 'solve' Africa's problems, may therefore involve disempowering them. By doing so, it is possible to potentially establish more productive starting points for learning about Africa within IR.
The carceral: Beyond, around, through and within prison walls
In: Political geography
ISSN: 0962-6298
Teaching Africa, presenting, representing and the importance of who is in the classroom
In: Politics, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 482-494
ISSN: 0263-3957
NGOs and the formation of the public: Grey practices and accountability
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 111, Heft 442, S. 116-135
ISSN: 0001-9909
Developmental States: A Review of the Literature
In: ESID Working Paper No. 03, February 2012
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Annotated Bibliography on Developmental States, Political Settlements and Citizenship Formation Towards Increased State Capacity and Legitimacy?
In: ESID Working Paper No 4
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Corruption and Development: The Anti-Corruption Campaigns
In: Review of African political economy, Band 36, Heft 121
ISSN: 1740-1720
Everyday Corruption and the State Citizens and Public Officials in Africa
In: Review of African political economy, Band 35, Heft 116, S. 352-353
ISSN: 0305-6244
Donors, Development Agencies and the Use of Political Economic Analysis: Getting to Grips with the Politics of Development?
In: ESID Working Paper No 19
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Panel Participants
In: Millennium: journal of international studies, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 237-258
ISSN: 1477-9021