dc.contributor.author | Anciano, Fiona | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-22T09:27:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-22T09:27:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Anciano, F. (2018). Decolonising Clientelism: ‘Re-centring’ analyses of local state–society relations in South Africa. Politikon, 45(1), 94–111. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2018.1418214 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1470-1014 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2018.1418214 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/6424 | |
dc.description.abstract | Concepts such as democracy and accountability rely heavily for their normative framing on
scholarship originating in Europe and America. While these theories of democracy are
useful for setting up frameworks with which to engage, it is important to assess the
actually existing practices of everyday state–society engagement in informal locations and
economies of the global south. Practices of everyday democracy may differ in contexts
such as South Africa’s and it is important to assess what this tells us about
reconceptualising democratic theory in our region. While not uncritical of the power
imbalances inherent in clientelism, this article attempts to provide a clear conceptual
definition of clientelism and then investigates how this practice may fulfil democratic tasks
such as increasing participation and accountability at the local level of governance. By
reframing democratic expectations and unpacking where traditionally vilified practices such
as clientelism may hold moments of democracy, the paper advances the idea that the
study of democracy can be decolonised. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en_US |
dc.subject | Decolonization | en_US |
dc.subject | Democracy | en_US |
dc.subject | South Africa | en_US |
dc.subject | Accountability | en_US |
dc.subject | State society | en_US |
dc.title | Decolonising clientelism: ‘Re-centring’ analyses of local state–society relations in South Africa | en_US |
dc.type | Image | en_US |