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Legitimation as Political Practice: Crafting Everyday Authority in Tanzania

Autor Kathy Dodworth
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 mai 2022
"'Legitimacy' has held an unwavering prominence within Western political philosophy. It is to an extent its founding debate as to the rightful use of power (Mulligan 2006). Weberian influenced legitimacy studies have more recently aimed to prise empirical legitimacy from normative, what is over what should be, in the service of good social science. In this book, I argue that empirical legitimacy remains only partially represented. This partiality is due to an entrenched focus on the actions of state elites and state, or inter-state, institutions. From legitimacy's earliest framings, theorists have conflated political power with state power. The state is legitimate force: ergo legitimacy is the state. Its study is thus hamstrung by recursive, state-based rationalities, which mask the extent to which Western norms and normativity imbue world politics and its study (Dodworth 2014; 2018a)"--
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781316516515
ISBN-10: 1316516512
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 158 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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.

Recenzii

'This is a truly ground-breaking book! It is at one and the same time an elegant ethnographic study of everyday practices and a sophisticated theoretical enquiry of legitimacy. The result is a radical rethinking of legitimation - and by implication, of International Relations - from the African ground up.' Rita Abrahamsen, University of Ottawa
'This is an important and rich study of how legitimacy is produced, negotiated and contested in Tanzania – with significant lessons for the theory and practice of global politics.' Carl Death, University of Manchester
'With its focus on the everyday rather than elites, attention to the logics of coloniality which continue to shape the present and recognition of the importance of ideas of the public, this book offers a powerful and insightful rethinking of 'legitimacy' from coastal Tanzania.' Emma Hunter, University of Edinburgh
'In the current conjuncture dominated by resurgent and insurgent decolonization of the twenty-first century where the issue of locus of enunciation is privileged, this book's central themes of legitimacy and legitimation, with a focus on the NGO sector rather than the state, are successfully de-abstracted. The book brings them down to everyday life where they can be measured easily in an intellectually rewarding manner. It is a very successful book with an assured shelf and virtual life. I have nothing but praise for this ground-breaking and inspiring work anchored on very rich empirical evidence.' Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, University of Bayreuth
'Legitimation as Political Practice reformulates legitimacy. It demonstrates that our understanding of this key concept is often static and based on models that are inherently limited through their eurocentrism. By bringing together an interrogation of legitimacy as a concept with detailed firmly grounded empirical research on NGOs in Tanzania, the book both exposes the limitations of our current theorising and details the material and performative ways in which legitimacy is produced.' Laura Routley, Newcastle University
'Legitimacy is profoundly a challenging matter in Africa. What informs legitimacy is a question that we often ask. Kathy Dodworth examines how legitimacy is produced in everyday practices. The analysis goes beyond state level by examining NGOs practices. This book is invaluable in seeking to bridge the 'legitimation practices' gap.' Aikande C. Kwayu, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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A radical, interdisciplinary reworking of legitimation, using ethnographic insights to explore everyday non-state authority in Tanzania.