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Title De-judicialization, Outsourced Review and All-too-flexible Bureaucracies in South African Land Restitution
Full text http://doc.rero.ch/record/288884/files/2015_Zenker_Dejudicialization.pdf
Date 2017
Author(s) Zenker, Olaf
Abstract This article takes as its starting point a peculiar land claim within the ongoing South African land restitution process ' more specifically, the legal and administrative technicalities that allowed for the implosion of the accompanying court case in the Land Claims Court ' to open up a space for reflection on the ambiguous nature of state bureaucracies as ambiguity-reducing machines. Tracing the specificities of bureaucratic attempts at foreclosing ambiguities and insufficiencies in state practice, I show how a reorientation towards the new public goods of 'service delivery', 'transparency' and 'accountability' brought about a pronounced regime of performance indicators and de-judicialized bureaucratic flexibility. Demonstrating how these attempts to reduce ambiguities created new zones of ambiguity and unaccountability of their own, I argue for a post-Weberian analysis of the path-dependent realities of 'bureaucratic authority' to help us understand the seemingly arbitrary structural violence that state bureaucracies often enact.
Language eng
Repository Switzerland - Library Network of Western Switzerland (RERO)
Added to C-A: 2017-06-08;07:15:04