Transparency by Adams Rachel;

Author:Adams, Rachel;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2020-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Summary

Transparency is a powerful sign, loaded with particular powerful values which hold the ability to create and to shape other phenomena to which they are associated. As a discourse, transparency rests on a number of pre-conceived (and Western) categories of reason in order to outwardly project itself as universal (inclusive) and natural (a priori). One of the most powerful of these is the idea of democracy. As such, the discourse of transparency has sought, through the re-iteration of its statements, to fix the meaning of democracy, such that a State which does not make a claim to transparency is considered both undemocratic and illegitimate. But, simultaneously, this gives the transparency discourse its raison d’être, (in the words of Alan Duncan of the UK Government) ‘to improve’ and to be proselytised upon States which have not, as yet, declared their commitment to the ideals of transparency (and particularly the African region) through a process of what I have spoken of here as epistemic violence.

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