UID:
almafu_9960720960302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxiii, 257 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-009-03497-9
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1-009-03517-7
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1-009-03039-6
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).
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Foreword; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Practicing legitimation; 1. Legitimacy and legitimation: Broadening the landscape; 2. Practicing the 'how' of legitimation; 3. 'We go deeper': Extensity and territoriality as practice; 4. 'In and out': Working the state in Tanzania; 5. 'I was chosen, it's the work that's voluntary': Negotiating voluntarism in Tanzania; 6. 'These people, they just sit!': Representing coastal 'others'; 7. 'Reporting has all sorts of issues!': The global ecosystem of information; Conclusion: Legitimation as practice: Everyday authority in Tanzania; Appendix A: Interviews; Glossary; References.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-316-51651-2
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030397
