Legitimation as Political Practice
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-01572-1 (ISBN)
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.
Kathy Dodworth is a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for African Studies. Her current fellowship critically re-examines contemporary community health work in Kenya (2021-25). Her doctoral thesis on legitimation practices in Tanzania was awarded the University of Edinburgh's School of Social and Political Science Outstanding Thesis Award in 2018. She has published in African Affairs, Ethnography, Critical African Studies, Health and the Journal of Social Policy. Her African Affairs article won the British International Studies Association Postgraduate Prize in 2015. Prior to academia, she worked within a number of health and education international non-governmental organisations.
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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.09.2024 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-01572-9 / 1009015729 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-01572-1 / 9781009015721 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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