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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates even minor official interactions, from traffic control to university admissions. In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering how corruption plays an important role in the processes of political change in all states. He suggests that corruption is best understood in Nigeria, as well as in all other nations, as a culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically embedded practices. The best solution to combatting Nigerian government corruption, Pierce contends, is not through attempts to prevent officials from diverting public revenue to self-interested ends, but to ask how public ends can be served by accommodating Nigeria's history of patronage as a fundamental political principle. Zusammenfassung In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering corruption's dynamic nature! finding it to be a culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically embedded practices. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
