Luxury and corruption : challenging the anti-corruption consensus / Tereza Østbø Kuldova, Jardar Østbø, and Thomas Raymen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuldova, Tereza, author.

Østbø, Jardar, author.

Raymen, Thomas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Luxury.

Corruption--Prevention.

Corruption.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Why do anti-corruption efforts routinely fail? What kind of world are they creating? Looking at luxury art, antiquities, superyachts and populist politics, this book explores the connection between luxury and corruption, and offers an alternative to the received wisdom of how we tackle corruption.

Contents:

Front Cover

Luxury and Corruption: Challenging the Anti-Corruption Consensus

Copyright information

Contents

About the Authors

Acknowledgements

Preface: Luxury, Corruption, and the Assumption of Harmlessness

1 Luxury, Anti-Corruption, and the Fantasy of Wholeness

Luxury, special liberty, and enjoyment

Anti-policies and luxury in the wrong hands

Targeting kleptocrats' 'dirty' luxury toys

Anti-policies and the expansion of securitized global control architectures

Repetition, revelation, and the logic of the scandal

The fantasy of a world without holes

2 Russian Kleptocrat Luxury, Naval'nyi's Exposés, and the Global Anti-Policy Syndrome

The functions of Aleksei Naval'nyi and Russian corruption

The 2020s as the new 1980s

The Soviet dissidents as the West's Ich-Ideal

Weaponized corruption as 'autocracy promotion'

Corruption as the cause and consequence of authoritarianism

Anti-corruption: from taboo to tabernacle

Aleksei Naval'nyi: the anti-policy messiah

Regenerative scandals versus disruptive scandals

The media is the message: the importance of the exposé videos

'Here, truth is spoken': uncovering the 'truth out there'

Entertainment and simulacra

The corrupting state versus idealized business and Big Tech utopia

Depoliticization and the consumerist utopia of pure morality

Reversing the reverse cargo cult

3 Compliance, Defiance, and the Fight against Crime through the Markets in Art, Antiquities, and Luxury

Compliance, defiance, and the quest for purity

The ideological fantasy of the integrity of the financial system

Financialization and assetization of art, antiquities, and luxury

Eliminating dirt: privatizing and pluralizing policing and intelligence

Purging the impure and reproducing the neoliberal sacred.

The 'filthy' markets in art, antiquities, and luxury collectibles

The state as a purifying machine

The expansive universe of risks and regulations

Art thefts and looting: from 'tainted objects' to the compliance industry

Fakes and forgeries and the quest for authenticity (as certification)

Corruption, luxury, and the compliance-industrial complex

More of the same, please (not)

4 Luxury, Encasement, and the Emptiness of Anti-Corruption's Ethics

Claustropolitan elites and the desire for encasement

Political economy of neoliberalism as claustropolitan encasement

Regulatory power to the regulated: the luxury superyacht industry

Business ethics, compliance, and Kantian deontology

Anti-corruption and the culture of emotivism

The emptiness of anti-corruption ethics

Epilogue: Luxury, Corruption, and the Death Drive

References

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Dec 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781529212426

1529212421