Surveillance of Global Corruption by Transparency International: Construction of a ‘Corrupt’ South and ‘Clean’ North Discourse

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  • Khorshed Alam Associate Professor, Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, University of Dhaka, Dhaka

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https://doi.org/10.3329/pp.v67i1-2.60184

Abstract

This study looks at how discourses of corruption in Bangladesh are discursively constructed within the official documents of Transparency International (TI), a non-profit organization that monitors corruption worldwide. It explores how an orientalist notion regarding Bangladesh is appropriated in neoliberal global discourse through TI’s corruption surveillance process. A postcolonial analysis of TI’s publications demonstrates a symbiotic relation between orientalism and neoliberalism. TI sets up a binary of ‘corrupt’ global South vs. ‘clean’ global North, reinforcing the uneven power relations between nation-states that can be seen as a neocolonial move for maintaining Western hegemony and enabling neoliberal ideology over non-Western territories.

Philosophy and Progress, Vol#67-68; No#1-2; Jan-Dec 2020 P 49-76

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2022-10-19

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Alam, K. . (2022). Surveillance of Global Corruption by Transparency International: Construction of a ‘Corrupt’ South and ‘Clean’ North Discourse. Philosophy and Progress, 67(1-2), 49–76. https://doi.org/10.3329/pp.v67i1-2.60184

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Vol LXVII-LXVIII, No 1-2 (2020)

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