The book takes a critical stance towards the normative good governance agenda spearheaded by institutions such as Transparency International and the World Bank. It is argued that by uncritically depicting corruption as an absolute evil these anti-corrutption programs disregard the close relationship that exists between corruption and state power.
save
₹2,351.00
Corruption and the Secret of Law: A Legal Anthropological Perspective
This volume presents a critical anthropological perspective on the hidden continuities between corruption and law. The authors argue that the two opposites, corruption and law, are inextricably linked, the possibility of the former already inscribed into the latter.
₹3,599.00₹5,950.00
In stock
| Dimensions | 24 × 16 × 2 cm |
|---|---|
| Edition | 1st |
| Format | Hardback |
| ISBN | 9780754671107 |
| Book Author | Monique Nuijten |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 208 |
| Publication Year | |
| Publisher |
Customer Reviews
There are no reviews yet.
Related products
-
Agency, Freedom, and Responsibility in the Early Heidegger
₹2,099.00This book employs Heidegger’s work of the 1920s and early 1930s to develop distinctively Heideggerian accounts of agency, freedom, and responsibility, making the case that Heidegger’s thought provides a compelling alternative to the mainstream philosophical accounts of these concepts.
₹2,999.00 -
Age of Rogues : Rebels, Revolutionaries and Racketeers at the Frontiers of Empires
₹2,275.00In Age of Rogues, leading scholars engage with themes of historical and cultural legacies, contentious interactions within imperial regimes, and the biographical trajectory of men and women who challenged the political status quo of their time.
₹3,250.00 -
The Principal 2.0: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact
₹1,750.00Break out of the traditional, narrow role of principal and transform your school for the better
20-22 Business Day Shipping (Supply on Demand)
₹2,299.00 -
Law, Surveillance and the Humanities
₹6,899.00The growing sophistication of surveillance practices has given rise to concerns and discussions in the public sphere, but has also provided a popular theme in literature, film and the arts. Bringing together contributors across literary studies, law, philosophy, sociology, and politics, this book examines the use, evolution, legitimacy, and implications of surveillance.
₹9,150.00 -
For Theory : Althusser and the Politics of Time
₹2,175.00For Theory is an invitation to review the impact of neoliberalization on critical thinking and a call to recover the momentum of theoretical production capable of sustaining better analyses of the conjuncture for an emancipatory strategy.
₹3,399.00 -
Democratization and Struggles Against Injustice : A Pragmatist Approach to the Epistemic Practices of Social Movements JUSTO SERRANO ZAMORA
₹2,000.00In specialized literature as well as in the eyes of regular citizens, social movements are often considered to be actors of democratization. Among other things, social movements criticize existing deficits in democratic systems; they promote practices of deliberation and enact non-hierarchical structures that challenge existing democratic institutions. Very often, these challenges emerge from the context of struggle against unjust situations involving social exclusion, economic inequalities or the violation of fundamental rights.
₹3,391.00 -
Contesting Nietzsche
₹1,695.00A brilliant exploration of a significant and understudied aspect of Nietzsche’s philosophy.
In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche’s crucial notion of the agon. Analyzing an impressive array of primary and secondary sources and synthesizing decades of Nietzsche scholarship, she shows how the agon, or contest, organized core areas of Nietzsche’s philosophy, providing a new appreciation of the subtleties of his notorious views about power. By focusing so intensely on this particular guiding interest, she offers an exciting, original vantage from which to view this iconic thinker: Contesting Nietzsche.
₹2,568.00 -
Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights
₹7,425.00The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of research on sexuality as the social sciences have worked to find new ways of understanding a rapidly changing world. Growing concern for issues such as population, women’s and men’s reproductive health, and the HIV and AIDS pandemic, has since provided new legitimacy for work on sexuality, health and rights.
₹22,500.00
Be the first to review “Corruption and the Secret of Law: A Legal Anthropological Perspective”