Narratives of corruption
Narratives of corruption
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腐败的叙述
DOI：
10.1177/1466138105055663
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发表时间：
2005
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影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Akhil Gupta
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作者：
Akhil Gupta
在这篇文章中，我试图分析有关腐败的故事，因为它们可能揭示了印度国家的一些情况。通过对我自己的田野调查数据进行三角测量，一本由北方邦（U.P.）的一位官员撰写的获奖小说。邦政府，以及印度主要社会人类学家之一F.G.贝利，我认为腐败的叙述，以及官僚和机构与这些叙述有关的行动，是当代印度国家宪法的基础。我认为，面向穷人提供基本需求的政策的成功取决于改变这些叙述，从而改变穷人与国家的情感关系。
In this article I attempt to analyze stories about corruption for what they might reveal about the Indian state. By triangulating my own fieldwork data, a prize-winning novel written by an official of the Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) state government, and the accounts of corruption by one of the major social anthropologists of India, F.G. Bailey, I claim that narratives of corruption, and the actions of bureaucrats and agencies in relation to those narratives, are fundamental to the constitution of the state in contemporary India. I argue that the success of policies geared to providing basic needs to the poor depend on changing these narratives and thereby altering the affective relations that poor citizens have with the state.