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Proposed session for the American Anthropological Association Annual
Meeting in San Francisco, November 19-23, 2008
Working Abstract for the Session:
"An Empire of Governance? Disjunctures in the Anti-Corruption Industry"
This panel focuses on the micropolitics of anti-corruption (as a
modern form of governance) by opening up its ideologies, discourses,
and practices to ethnographic scrutiny. Efforts to control corruption
have largely been objectified by international policy regimes located
in bi- and multilateral organizations such as the World Bank, USAID,
and Transparency International. At the same time, several critics of
the anti-corruption industry claim it is part and parcel of a
globalizing neoliberal, even imperialist, agenda. Yet both views tend
to assume that anti-corruption and "good governance" initiatives are
unified and coherent projects. In contrast, we treat anti-corruption
as a heterogeneous and contradictory assemblage of diverse practices
and beliefs that are embodied and produced by particular actors in
specific institutions. The papers explore the processes by which
global anti-corruption policies, rationalities, and techniques in
foreign aid and development are made, executed, and promoted.
Please send 250 word abstract to Raymond June (raymond.june@gmail.com)
by March 25.
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