Malini Ranganathan et al., "Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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The Role of Race in Corruption in the Global South
Many times political narratives have to make reference to something happening in the global south in order to then get a legitimate you know happening in the United States. And so it's fascinating that and this is what my colleague also showed me, they're very skeptical of this kind of language of corruption to the global south. So I'm hopeful for more interesting and more accurate scholarship on corruption emerging from these paradigm shifting conversations.
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