{"title":"Sylvia Tidey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Tidey\u003c\/strong\u003e explores complex ethical questions and the challenges of governance in contemporary society. Her works delve into themes of corruption, care, and the moral dilemmas that arise in the pursuit of good governance, offering thoughtful and nuanced perspectives for readers interested in the intersection of ethics and public administration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for those engaged with \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e, Tidey’s writing provides insightful analysis that is both accessible and intellectually rigorous. Her books invite readers to consider the practical implications of ethical theory in real-world contexts, encouraging deeper reflection on what it means to do the right thing in governance and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ethics-or-the-right-thing-corruption-and-care-in-the-age-of-good-governance-by-sylvia-tidey-9781912808649","title":"Ethics or the Right Thing? – Corruption and Care in the Age of Good Governance","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sympathetic examination of the failure of anti-corruption efforts in contemporary Indonesia.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCombining ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Kupang with an acute historical sensibility, Sylvia Tidey shows how good governance initiatives paradoxically perpetuate civil service corruption while also facilitating the emergence of new forms of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eImporting critical insights from the anthropology of ethics to the burgeoning anthropology of corruption, Tidey exposes enduring developmentalist fallacies that treat corruption as endemic to non-Western subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn practice, it is often indistinguishable from the ethics of care and exchange, as Indonesian civil servants make worthwhile lives for themselves and their families.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEthics or the Right Thing? – Corruption and Care in the Age of Good Governance\u003c\/em\u003e will be a vital text for anthropologists and other social scientists, particularly scholars of global studies, development studies, and Southeast Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47602943590636,"sku":"9781912808649","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781912808649-ethics-or-the-right-thing-corruption-and-care-in-the-age-of-good-governance.jpg?v=1778050164"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/sylvia-tidey.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}