Corruption as an Empty Signifier

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. Conventionally, both ac...

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Auteur principal: Koechlin, Lucy
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Democracy
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Polical Science
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corruption
politics
Civil society
Construction
Democracy
Professional association
Tanzania
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Construction
Democracy
Professional association
Tanzania
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