TY  - SER
AU  - Doshi,Sapana 
TI  - Towards a critical geography of corruption and power in late capitalism
PY  - 2019///
PB  - Sage
KW  - accumulation by dispossession
KW  -  corruption discourse,
KW  - land grabs,
KW  - populism,
KW  - territory,
KW  - urban informality
N2  - Corruption politics have received little attention in human geography. We offer a critical geography of corruption as an alternative to economistic framings that take corruption as an objective set of deviant practices mostly besetting states in the Global South. Instead, we theorize corruption as a historically shifting, subjective discourse about the abuse of entrusted power. Geographic and cognate disciplinary approaches reveal how corruption narratives become politicized and yoked to symbolic, material, and territorial regimes of power. We suggest that recent theories of urban informality provide a revealing lens into the ethico-politics and territorial struggles of contemporary capitalism across the North and South
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132517753070
ER  -