The social act of exchange in power relations: The study of the phenomenon of Nichekeleko at the weighbridges in Zambia
| dc.contributor.author | Phiri, Chidongo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-26T07:40:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-02-26T07:40:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article examines the widely practiced phenomenon of Nichekeleko at the Weighbridges (WBs) in Zambia. The commonly held understanding of Nichekeleko by the Zambian people is that, it is corruption; ranging from bribery, theft, embezzlement, gratification to favouritism. Sociologically, the phenomenon was conceived as a social act of exchange within the context of power relations by the actors who engage in it. Foucault�s notion of power relations and Bourdieu�s concepts of �practice� and �fields�� provided the theoretical framework for the study. Power was considered as a system, and a network of relations, encompassing the whole society than a relation between the oppressed and the oppressor. Methodologically, this study was based on mixed method research; the large part of it involving participant- observation, interviews and administering of questionnaires The argument in this paper is that failure to analyse corruption from a linguistic and philosophical perspective implied in �Nichekeleko� reduces the practice to mere violation of the law or moral rules. A much closer look at corruption from a language vantage point provides us with essential dimensions of the practice, why, and how it has persisted in Zambia | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Phiri, C. (2017). The social act of exchange in power relations: The study of the phenomenon of Nichekeleko at the weighbridges in Zambia. African Sociological Review, 21(2): 100 - 114 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1027-4332 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.ajol.info/index.php/asr/article/view/167163/156600 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/3532 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.privacy.showsubmitter | FALSE | |
| dc.publisher | CODESRIA | en_US |
| dc.rights | Revue Africaine de Sociologie is an Open Access Journal | |
| dc.status.ispeerreviewed | TRUE | |
| dc.subject | Corruption | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nichekeleko | en_US |
| dc.subject | Power relations | en_US |
| dc.subject | Social act of Exchange | en_US |
| dc.subject | Practice | en_US |
| dc.title | The social act of exchange in power relations: The study of the phenomenon of Nichekeleko at the weighbridges in Zambia | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |