Seven Sentences
1.
It is not only the concrete practices
of corruption that impact on the lives of individuals and the functioning of
societies – discourses and politics in relation to corruption have become
increasingly significant, particularly so in societies divided by political
conflict or violence.
2.
To understand the problems and dynamics
of corruption, we need to understand how corruption is intertwined with the
constructions and contestations of identity.
3.
Identity politics involve complex
process in which power is exercised and contested, and where identity function
as a major mobiliser, producer of meaning and categorising factor.
4.
The ambivalence of what is private and
what is collective gain in relation to corruption indicates that to understand
how identity groups and loyalties are constructed and maintained.
5.
Identity-based conflicts are often
rooted in a sense of grievances – a sense of being, as a group, marginalised,
repressed and excluded from expected access to power and resources.
6.
Used strategically by minority groups,
corruption can potentially, and to some extent, be a tool in a politics of
resistance or survival.
7.
The structures of power and the extent
to which the political system has been ethnicised will determine whether this
solidarity merely reinforces in-group loyalties and ethnic divides or whether
it may actually bridge conflict divides.
The
paper argues and shows that politicisation of corruption, anti-corruption and
identity based conflicts, in a way decides how corruption affects people’s
trust in each other, the state and the society in general, thus making
corruption yet another tool in the power play of identity politics.
Reference
Orjuela,
Camilla. ‘Corruption and Identity Politics in Divided societies’ Third World Quarterly 35:5, pp 753-769,
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