Lucy Koechlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3466221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Koechlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy |
| FAMILY NAME | Koechlin |
| SIGNATURE | KOECHLIN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Basel Institute of Social Anthropology Basel Switzerland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Informal networks as investment
The paper interprets informal networks as investments made by citizens and business people to cope with the public sphere. Informal networks often orchestrate corruption, connecting public and private actors. The paper aims to understand their key characteristics, scopes, and functional roles. Ten mini case studies from Tanzania and Uganda are studied. The research applies narrative analysis to explore the experiences of citizens, entrepreneurs, …
In or Out? Emerging Urban Practices of Citizenship in East Africa
The Politics of Governance
do government arrangements emerge? When and how does individual agency turn into collective agency? How do sensory experiences of violence, instability, etc affect the configuration of governance arrangements? When, why, and how are governance arrangements institutionalized?This book seeks to contribute to a non-normative conceptualization of the emergence and transformation of government arrangements, and addresses the under-theorization of acto…
Introduction Corruption, Politics and Africa
Corruption as an Empty Signifier critically explores the ways in which corruption in Africa has been equated with African politics and political order, and offers a novel approach to understanding corruption as a potentially emancipatory discourse of political transformation.
Democratic Spaces in the Making? Professional Associations and Corruption in 2003
Interlude A Topography of Corruption in Tanzania
Despite the three common enemies of Tanzania's development namely ignorance diseases and poverty [sic], corruption has emerged the fourth. Suggest the root causes of corruption and the ways to stop this social problem in not less than 250 words.1 1 exam question of the Certificate of Secondary education examination (o-levels) at Kisimiri School, october 2008 (courtesy of Sibylle ganz-Koechlin).
Index
Sketching Out an Emancipatory Discourse
Chapter twoSketChing out an emanCipatory DiSCourSe: Corruption, politiCal SpaCeS anD SoCial imaginarieSHere, then, is the paradox in the search for civil society at the century's end.The very fertility of the Idea-its broad, transnational appeal as a trope of moral imagining-stems from its polyvalence: its capacity to condense distinct doctrines and ethical strains in a fan of pliable associations that can be variously distilled and infinitely el…
The Academic Discourse
One the aCademiC disCOurse: pOlitiCal Order and COrruptiOn in afriCa Hence the general feeling of helplessness in the face of an infernal mechanism.And hence this hypothesis, which is also a risk: the development of movements of a 'puritanical' tendency, intended to bring about a reform of public morals [. ..] may be among the ultimate means, in absence of an improbable selfreformation of the political elites, to attempt to change the present cou…
Preliminary Material
Closures of Democratic Spaces? Professional Associations and Corruption in 2010
Closures of DemoCratiC spaCes
Conclusions Corruption, Politics and Political Order
Corruption, politiCs and politiCal order soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener than we fancy it.1 the diverse articulations of corruption explored in this book should make one thing visible: 'corruption' is a political concept. it is political in the ways that it is produced by the development discourse, shaping social realities through powerful imageries and material interventions. it is political in the various ways that th…
Corruption as an Empty Signifier
Corruption as an Empty Signifier critically explores the ways in which corruption in Africa has been equated with African politics and political order, and offers a novel approach to understanding corruption as a potentially emancipatory discourse of political transformation. Conventionally, both academic literature as well as development policies depict corruption as the lynchpin of politics in Africa, locking African societies into political or…
Non-State Actors as Standard Setters
Corruption as an Empty Signifier
Corruption as an Empty Signifier critically explores the ways in which corruption in Africa has been equated with African politics and political order, and offers a novel approach to understanding corruption as a potentially emancipatory discourse of political transformation. Conventionally, both academic literature as well as development policies depict corruption as the lynchpin of politics in Africa, locking African societies into political or…
Informal networks as investment
The paper interprets informal networks as investments made by citizens and business people to cope with the public sphere. Informal networks often orchestrate corruption, connecting public and private actors. The paper aims to understand their key characteristics, scopes, and functional roles. Ten mini case studies from Tanzania and Uganda are studied. The research applies narrative analysis to explore the experiences of citizens, entrepreneurs, …
Non-State Actors as Standard Setters
Introduction Corruption, Politics and Africa
Corruption as an Empty Signifier critically explores the ways in which corruption in Africa has been equated with African politics and political order, and offers a novel approach to understanding corruption as a potentially emancipatory discourse of political transformation.
Democratic Spaces in the Making? Professional Associations and Corruption in 2003
Interlude A Topography of Corruption in Tanzania
Despite the three common enemies of Tanzania's development namely ignorance diseases and poverty [sic], corruption has emerged the fourth. Suggest the root causes of corruption and the ways to stop this social problem in not less than 250 words.1 1 exam question of the Certificate of Secondary education examination (o-levels) at Kisimiri School, october 2008 (courtesy of Sibylle ganz-Koechlin).
Index
Sketching Out an Emancipatory Discourse
Chapter twoSketChing out an emanCipatory DiSCourSe: Corruption, politiCal SpaCeS anD SoCial imaginarieSHere, then, is the paradox in the search for civil society at the century's end.The very fertility of the Idea-its broad, transnational appeal as a trope of moral imagining-stems from its polyvalence: its capacity to condense distinct doctrines and ethical strains in a fan of pliable associations that can be variously distilled and infinitely el…
The Academic Discourse
One the aCademiC disCOurse: pOlitiCal Order and COrruptiOn in afriCa Hence the general feeling of helplessness in the face of an infernal mechanism.And hence this hypothesis, which is also a risk: the development of movements of a 'puritanical' tendency, intended to bring about a reform of public morals [. ..] may be among the ultimate means, in absence of an improbable selfreformation of the political elites, to attempt to change the present cou…
Preliminary Material
Closures of Democratic Spaces? Professional Associations and Corruption in 2010
Closures of DemoCratiC spaCes
Conclusions Corruption, Politics and Political Order
Corruption, politiCs and politiCal order soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener than we fancy it.1 the diverse articulations of corruption explored in this book should make one thing visible: 'corruption' is a political concept. it is political in the ways that it is produced by the development discourse, shaping social realities through powerful imageries and material interventions. it is political in the various ways that th…
Corruption as an Empty Signifier
Corruption as an Empty Signifier critically explores the ways in which corruption in Africa has been equated with African politics and political order, and offers a novel approach to understanding corruption as a potentially emancipatory discourse of political transformation. Conventionally, both academic literature as well as development policies depict corruption as the lynchpin of politics in Africa, locking African societies into political or…
The Politics of Governance
do government arrangements emerge? When and how does individual agency turn into collective agency? How do sensory experiences of violence, instability, etc affect the configuration of governance arrangements? When, why, and how are governance arrangements institutionalized?This book seeks to contribute to a non-normative conceptualization of the emergence and transformation of government arrangements, and addresses the under-theorization of acto…
In or Out? Emerging Urban Practices of Citizenship in East Africa
Informal networks as investment
The paper interprets informal networks as investments made by citizens and business people to cope with the public sphere. Informal networks often orchestrate corruption, connecting public and private actors. The paper aims to understand their key characteristics, scopes, and functional roles. Ten mini case studies from Tanzania and Uganda are studied. The research applies narrative analysis to explore the experiences of citizens, entrepreneurs, …
Political science (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Language change (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (9 works) · Order (exchange) (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Art (6 works)