Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City

by Sapana Doshi, David L. Pike, Malini Ranganathan

Book Overview

Corruption Plots illuminates how corruption is fundamental to global storytelling about how states and elites abuse entrusted power in late capitalism. The millennial city of the global South is a charged setting for allegations of corruption, with skyscrapers, land grabs, and slum evictions invoking outrage at deepening economic polarization. Drawing on ethnography in Bengaluru and Mumbai and a cross-section of literary and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501768751
• ISBN13: 9781501768750
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"