Donderdag 25 Mei 2023

donderdag25.05
Nederland, Groningen - Academiegebouw Rijksuniversiteit Groningen - Lezing en debat
Promotie: Leadership effectiveness of the executive directors of local government authorities in Tanzania
Donderdag 25 Mei 2023 14:30

PhD ceremony: G.R. Igulu, MBA. Supervisors: prof. dr. J. (Ko) de Ridder, prof. dr. mr. A. (Albertjan) Tollenaar. Co-supervisor:    dr. B.J.M. Emans

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donderdag25.05
Nederland, Leiden - ASC - Lezing en debat
ASCL Seminar: Legitimation as political practice: everyday authority in Tanzania and beyond
Donderdag 25 Mei 2023 16:00 - 17:00

This event will be held physically in Leiden. For registrees who cannot travel to Leiden a link to an online platform will be sent one day before the start of the event. Legitimacy has long been perceived through a Westernised lens as a fixed, binary state. In this lecture, Kathy Dodworth offers an exploration of everyday legitimation practices in coastal Tanzania, which challenges this understanding within postcolonial contexts. She reveals how non-government organisations craft their authority to act, working with, against and through the state, and what these practices tell us about contemporary legitimation. Synthesising 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, she builds a picture of contemporary governance in Tanzania and beyond in the wake of waning Western dominance. Speaker: Dr Kathy Dodworth (The University of Edinburgh)

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