Steven Pierce

Moral Economies of Corruption

State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria

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Produktbeschreibung

Steven Pierce is Senior Lecturer in Modern African History at the University of Manchester. He is the coeditor of Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism, also published by Duke University Press, and the author of Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano: Land Tenure and the Legal Imagination. ¿

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780822360773
• ISBN-10: 0822360772
• Artikelnr.: 43546481

Autorenporträt

Steven Pierce is Senior Lecturer in Modern African History at the University of Manchester. He is the coeditor of Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism, also published by Duke University Press, and the author of Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano: Land Tenure and the Legal Imagination.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Corruption Discourse and the Performance of Politics  1
Part I. From Caliphate to Federal Republic
1. A Tale of Two Emirs: Colonialism and Bureaucratizing Emirates,
1900–1948  27
2. The Political Time: Ethnicity and Violence, 1948–1970  63
3. Oil and the "Army Arrangement": Corruption and the Petro-State,
1970–1999  105
Part II. Corruption, Nigeria, and the Moral Imagination
4. Moral Economies of Corruption  153
5. Nigerian Corruption and the Limits of the State  188
Conclusion  219
Notes  231
Bibliography  257
Index  277