Ethics or the right thing? : corruption, care, and family in an age of good governance / Sylvia Tidey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tidey, Sylvia, author.

Series:

Malinowski monographs series.

Malinowski monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corruption--Indonesia.

Corruption.

Corruption--Government policy--Indonesia.

Political ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 206 pages).

Place of Publication:

HAU Books 2022

Chicago : HAU Books, [2022]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A sympathetic examination of the failure of anti-corruption efforts in contemporary Indonesia. Combining ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Kupang with an acute historical sensibility, Sylvia Tidey shows how good governance initiatives paradoxically perpetuate civil service corruption while also facilitating the emergence of new forms of it. Importing critical insights from the anthropology of ethics to the burgeoning anthropology of corruption, Tidey exposes enduring developmentalist fallacies that treat corruption as endemic to non-Western subjects. In practice, it is often indistinguishable from the ethics of care and exchange, as Indonesian civil servants make worthwhile lives for themselves and their families. This book will be a vital text for anthropologists and other social scientists, particularly scholars of global studies, development studies, and Southeast Asia.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Kupang, the Giving City

Chapter 2. Corruption as Caring Responsibility

Chapter 3. Between the Ethical and the Right Thing

Chapter 4. Poetics and Poiesis

Chapter 5. Reading the Bidding Books

Conclusion

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages173-193) and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9781912808663

1912808668