Legitimation as Political Practice(English, Hardcover, Dodworth Kathy)

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Legitimation as Political Practice(English, Hardcover, Dodworth Kathy) is written by Dodworth Kathy and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1316516512 (ISBN 10) and 9781316516515 (ISBN 13).

Legitimacy has long been perceived through a Westernized lens as a fixed, binary state. In this book, Kathy Dodworth offers an exploration of everyday legitimation practices in coastal Tanzania, which challenges this understanding within postcolonial contexts. She reveals how non-government organizations craft their authority to act, working with, against and through the state, and what these practices tell us about contemporary legitimation. Synthesizing detailed, ethnographic fieldwork with theoretical innovations from across the social sciences, legitimacy is reworked not as a fixed state, but as a collection of constantly renegotiated practices. Critically adopting insights from political theory, sociology and anthropology, this book develops a detailed picture of contemporary governance in Tanzania and beyond in the wake of waning Western dominance.