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 the academic discourse identifies the structuring properties denoted by corruption, reiterating the blurred boundary between the public and private in africa.and lastly, it is political conceptualised as an empty signifier through which particular groups manage to inscribe particular demands and interests in a universal horizon.it is this last conceptualisation that i seek to develop in more detail in this concluding chapter, drawing on substantive insights from the chapters on the academic and developmental discourse on corruption, as well as fleshing out some of the more pertinent findings from the case-studies on professional associations in tanzania.in doing this, i hope to relate these insights to some questions of general theoretical interest.the case-studies illuminate political micro-struggles, looking at a small and narrowly circumscribed field of social agents and the ways they articulate their demands using corruption as a signifier portraying 'public'

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