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Conclusion

Everyday Legitimation in Tanzania and Beyond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2022

Kathy Dodworth
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
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Legitimacy studies, even those more sociologically attuned, remain committed to ascertaining the presence or absence of legitimacy. What appears to embrace fluidity, iteration and hybridity ultimately proves static in its binary yes/no conception. This book’s intent was to embrace the multiplicity, multivalency and making of legitimation in postcolonial contexts. Each non-governmental organization (NGO) intervention is legitimated iteratively; a static belief in the legitimacy of an NGO, or of NGOs in general, has no meaning. Furthermore, legitimation practices are mutually constitutive even when placed in opposition to each other. At that moment in Tanzania, in the wake of peak liberalization, this book mapped two nexuses of legitimation practice: territoriality/representation/materiality and state/extensity/voluntarism, playing out to different effect in different circumstances. Each nexus is transitory, subject to cumulative change and reconfiguration over time. Given this, the informal legitimation practices so-honed by NGOs in tight spaces will prove critical to non/state survival and its cautious expansion in Tanzania and beyond. This chapter thus lastly comments on prospects for broader non/state legitimation within authoritarian capitalist futures.

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Legitimation as Political Practice
Crafting Everyday Authority in Tanzania
, pp. 200 - 209
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Conclusion
  • Kathy Dodworth, University of Edinburgh
  • Book: Legitimation as Political Practice
  • Online publication: 05 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030397.011
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  • Conclusion
  • Kathy Dodworth, University of Edinburgh
  • Book: Legitimation as Political Practice
  • Online publication: 05 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030397.011
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  • Conclusion
  • Kathy Dodworth, University of Edinburgh
  • Book: Legitimation as Political Practice
  • Online publication: 05 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030397.011
Available formats
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