State, corruption, postcoloniality: A conversation with Akhil Gupta on the 20th anniversary of “Blurred Boundaries”

Gupta, Akhil; Nugent, David; Sreenath, Shreyas

doi:10.1111/amet.12157

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“…There is evidence that formula milk companies ignore the laws and continue marketing their products inappropriately [42]. The literature from Pakistan and India shows that corruption within medical settings restricts government services [26,43]. While drawing upon the anthropology of the state along with the perspective of structural violence, Gupta found that funds hardly reach their anticipated beneficiaries but mostly reach people with political acquaintances, cultural capital, and financial influence [44].…”

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Key Challenges to Optimal Therapeutic Coverage and Maternal Utilization of CMAM Program in Rural Southern Pakistan: A Qualitative Exploratory Study

Ahmed

Malik

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Nutrients

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Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) is a serious public health problem in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Therapeutic programs are often considered the most effective solution to this problem. However, multiple social and structural factors challenge the social inclusion, sustainability, and effectiveness of such programs. In this article, we aim to explore how poor and remote households face structural inequities and social exclusion in accessing nutrition-specific programs in Pakistan. The study specifically highlights significant reasons for the low coverage of the Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) program in one of the most marginalized districts of south Punjab. Qualitative data are collected using in-depth interviews and FGDs with mothers and health and nutrition officials. The study reveals that mothers’ access to the program is restricted by multiple structural, logistical, social, and behavioral causes. At the district level, certain populations are served, while illiterate, and poor mothers with lower cultural capital from rural and remote areas are neglected. The lack of funding for nutrition causes the deprioritization of nutrition by the health bureaucracy. The subsequent work burden on Lady Health Workers (LHWs) and the lack of proper training of field staff impact the screening of SAM cases. Moreover, medical corruption in the distribution of therapeutic food, long distances, traveling or staying difficulties, the lack of social capital, and the stigmatization of mothers are other prominent difficulties. The study concludes that nutrition governance in Pakistan must address these critical challenges so that optimal therapeutic coverage can be achieved.

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Key Challenges to Optimal Therapeutic Coverage and Maternal Utilization of CMAM Program in Rural Southern Pakistan: A Qualitative Exploratory Study

Ahmed

Malik

et al. 2022

Nutrients

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“…Enquanto nos primeiros a localização estrutural dos diálogos contempla as regiões centrais -os centros urbanos de capital, a alta política, a administração e a educação -os segundos delineiam as naturezas multicamadas e pluricêntricas do Estado, distinguindo-se entre um ente central e suas distintas representações burocráticas locais. As construções do Estado irão variar de acordo com a forma como os diferentes atores estão posicionados socialmente (Gupta, 1995), mesmo com todos os mecanismos para representá-lo como um ator coerente e unificado (Gupta, Nugent, & Sreenath, 2015), como idealizado na visão eurocentrista.…”

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Cumplicidade e impunidade: uma análise pós-colonial do envolvimento do setor bancário na corrupção transnacional

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Oliveira

2021

Rev. Eletr. de Ciênc. Adm.

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Esta pesquisa aborda a corrupção, reconhecendo a importância das redes transnacionais informais na perpetuação da corrupção. O objetivo geral é compreender, sob a lente pós-colonial, como a corrupção se constitui um fenômeno transnacional. Realizamos uma pesquisa qualitativa, com a análise de documentos sobre casos de corrupção envolvendo um grande banco internacional: o HSBC Holdings Plc. O material empírico foi extraído da organização International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) e do jornal britânico The Guardian, sendo submetido à análise temática. O mapa temático final destaca dois temas que desvelam as relações coloniais: a cumplicidade dos agentes do sistema financeiro com os infratores e a impunidade do colonizador com esses mesmos agentes. Os resultados apontam para um padrão histórico de leniência e conivência do banco com criminosos, com diversos processos acusatórios encerrados com acordos, resumidos às multas que, por maiores que fossem em relação às práticas da justiça até então, não representavam sanções que inibissem as eventuais reincidências.

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“…The ‘sites of entitlement’ approach seems particularly well suited to examining differential access to urban services in India, and other countries where citizen rights do not necessarily bear close relation to entitlements. Van Dijk (2011a) argues that the personalized nature of Indian bureaucracy (see also Gupta et al ., ), coupled with the state's low infrastructural power, results in ‘gaps between both the formal–legal channels of entitlement actualization (and informal channels) and differently positioned places or collectivities’ (van Dijk, : 307). Similar conditions can be found in other postcolonial cities where the demand for government services outstrips supply, increasing the likelihood of ‘informal regimes of citizenship’ (Berenschot and van Klinken, ), clientelism, and other forms of patronage.…”

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The Familiar Face of the State: Affect, Emotion and Citizen Entitlements in Dehradun, India

Jakimow¹

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Municipal Councillors (MCs) are the 'familiar face of the state' in Dehradun, India: the first port of call for citizens seeking to claim entitlements from the state. The way MCs respond to the requests of their constituents is a major factor in the uneven distribution of government welfare and services. This article seeks to contribute to understandings of citizen entitlements by drawing attention to the role of affect and emotion in shaping the interactions between MCs and voters. I examine the ways citizens consciously or unconsciously engender emotions and affective responses, and the effect these have in mobilizing MCs. Attention to the, at times, involuntary nature of these responses suggests a need to go beyond the instrumental and calculating motivations of municipal councillors, to consider the way they are compelled and animated to meet the demands of some citizens, but not of others. The capacity to affect, and the ways one is affected, are tied to the social identities and self-making projects of both the MC and the voter, resulting in an uneven (mal)distribution of state resources. A focus on affective configurations in urban governance thereby reveals heretofore overlooked determinants of unequal access to urban resources and services.

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State, corruption, postcoloniality: A conversation with Akhil Gupta on the 20th anniversary of “Blurred Boundaries”

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Key Challenges to Optimal Therapeutic Coverage and Maternal Utilization of CMAM Program in Rural Southern Pakistan: A Qualitative Exploratory Study

Key Challenges to Optimal Therapeutic Coverage and Maternal Utilization of CMAM Program in Rural Southern Pakistan: A Qualitative Exploratory Study

Cumplicidade e impunidade: uma análise pós-colonial do envolvimento do setor bancário na corrupção transnacional

The Familiar Face of the State: Affect, Emotion and Citizen Entitlements in Dehradun, India

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