One of the more recent books we have indexed at Southwest Humanities is Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City, by Malini Ranganathan, David L. Pike, and Sapana Doshi. In this remarkable work written by six hands, the authors “illuminate how corruption is fundamental to global storytelling about how states and elites abuse entrusted power in late capitalism.” Based on ethnographical work in Mumbai and Bengaluru and drawing on a wide variety of urban stories, both cinematic and literary, from around the world, “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.” Corruption Plots will be published by Cornell University Press in April 2023. You can find more information about this important forthcoming work at the publisher’s website here.
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