Format:
1 online resource (xxiii, 257 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781009030397
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9781316516515
,
9781009015721
Content:
Legitimacy has long been perceived through a Westernized lens as a fixed, binary state. In this book, Kathy Dodworth offers an exploration of everyday legitimation practices in coastal Tanzania, which challenges this understanding within postcolonial contexts. She reveals how non-government organizations craft their authority to act, working with, against and through the state, and what these practices tell us about contemporary legitimation. Synthesizing detailed, ethnographic fieldwork with theoretical innovations from across the social sciences, legitimacy is reworked not as a fixed state, but as a collection of constantly renegotiated practices. Critically adopting insights from political theory, sociology and anthropology, this book develops a detailed picture of contemporary governance in Tanzania and beyond in the wake of waning Western dominance.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781316516515
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781316516515
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/9781009030397
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