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

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