The Pleasures of Corruption: Desire and Discipline in Ghanaian Political Culture.
The writer contrasts popular understandings of corruption in public discourse with official practices of anticorruption in Ghana's state institutions. She contends that whereas global disciplinary campaigns against corruption hone in on selfishness and greed, local anticorruption practices intersec...
| Published in: | Cultural Anthropology Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 271 - 302 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May 2005
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| Summary: | The writer contrasts popular understandings of corruption in public discourse with official practices of anticorruption in Ghana's state institutions. She contends that whereas global disciplinary campaigns against corruption hone in on selfishness and greed, local anticorruption practices intersect with affectively engaged social desires. She explores two distinct conceptualizations of corruption in popular media that demonstrate the connection between corruption and socially embedded desire, before examining corruption investigations at the Ghanaian Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice and the Serious Fraud Office. |
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