Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City illuminates how corruption is fundamental to global storytelling about how states and elites abuse entrusted power in late capitalism. The millennial city of the global South is a charged setting for allegations of corruption, with skyscrapers, land grabs, and slum evictions invoking outrage at deepening economic polarization. Corruption Plots demonstrates how corruption talk is leveraged to make sense of unequal spatial change and used opportunistically by those who are themselves implicated in wrongdoing. Offering a wide-ranging analysis of urban worlds, the authors reveal the ethical, spatial, and political stakes of storytelling and how vital it is to examine the corruption plot in all its contradictions. Research for this book was undertaken in 2018.
The book was published with Cornell University Press in 2023 and Yoda Press, India in 2024. Read a review in Public Books and Dialogues in Human Geography.
