Performing Good Governance: The Aesthetics of Bureaucratic Practice in Malawi

Ethnos

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-23

  Eggen, Oyvind ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

aesthetics; Bureaucracy; Malawi; performativity; state formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859201652     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2011.580357     Document Type: Article

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