Legitimacy has long been perceived through a Westernised lens as a fixed, binary state. Drawing on her new book, Kathy Dodworth will explore everyday legitimation practices in coastal Tanzania, specifically how non-government organisations craft their authority to act, working with, against and through the state.
Combining ethnographic fieldwork with theoretical innovation, legitimacy is reworked as a collection of constantly renegotiated practices. Dr Dodworth adopts insights from political theory, sociology and anthropology, and will discuss contemporary non/state governance in Tanzania and beyond, in the wake of waning Western dominance.
Meet our speaker and chair
Kathy Dodworth is a Research Fellow at the Centre of Africa Studies at the University of Edinburgh, examining voluntary labour in Kenya. Her latest book is a result of her doctoral research in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh in 2018, which won the School of Social and Political Science Outstanding Thesis Award. She has published in African Affairs, Critical African Studies, Ethnography, Journal of Social Policy and Health and was the winner of the inaugural BISA/African Affairs postgraduate paper prize.
Milli Lake is Associate Professor of International Security in 杏吧论坛's Department of International Relations. She co-directs the project and also co-convenes the consortium.
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Copies of Kathy Dodworth's new book, will be available to purchase at this event from Pages of Hackney.
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