Abstract:detail. Greater attention could also have been paid to political ideas from Malawi's longue durée, which are only alluded to in the book, and the extent to which they inform the discourse of the staff of Malawi's CSOs, relative to the new liberal governmentality Gabay describes. Gabay's book is complemented in these respects by Harri Englund's ethnography Prisoners of Freedom, a book that draws similar conclusions about the implications of the structural position of Malawian CSOs for their work, whilst as… Show more
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