Negotiating Corruption: NGOs, Governance and Hybridity in West Africa
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 19 - Politics and International Studies
- Output identifier
- 217943-130640-1277
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415825269
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This single authored monograph utilises sustained ethnographic fieldwork with national NGOs in Nigeria comprising both participant observation and semi-structured interviews. It exposes disjunctures between dominant understandings of corruption, both in the academic literature and in development policies, and the practices of national NGOs. There is a sustained theoretical exploration of how these practices that do not fit dominant frameworks can be understood; starting with an examination of Michael Foucault’s concept of governmentality but concluding that Homi Bhabha’s concepts of hybridity, and mimicry provide greater analytical purchase. Therefore, it presents both significant new empirical insights and a substantial theoretical research effort.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Section pp: 83-93 appeared in an earlier form in Routley, L. (2012) NGOs and the formation of the public: grey practices and accountability. African Affairs, 111 (442), 116-134. (submitted to REF 2014)
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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