Sociology of Islamic public administration : Ethnographic and socio-legal perspectives

Summary, in English

This chapter argues that for public administration research to genuinely advance in non-Western contexts, scholars must at a minimum be familiar with, and ideally engage with, local cultural norms, traditions, and epistemes vis-à-vis their research. To that end, we offer a methodological shift towards ethnographic approaches to better understand and analyse contemporary PA practices, focusing on the Islamic paradigm in particular. By outlining essential socio-legal ethnographic methods, this chapter aims to inspire future field-based empirical public administration research, fostering a more nuanced understanding of governance beyond Western paradigms.

• Författare: Rustam Urinboyev
• Redaktör: Wolfgang Drechsler; Salah Chafik; Rainer Kattel
• Avdelning/ar: Rättssociologiska institutionen
• Publiceringsår: 2025-01-01
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 38-53
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Policy, Administrative and Institutional Change
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• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781035333646.00010
• Dokumenttyp: Del av eller Kapitel i bok
• Förlag: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
• Ämne: Public Administration Studies; Other Legal Research
• Nyckelord: Ethnography; Field-based methods; Islamic Public Administration; Living traditions
• Aktiv: Published
• Projekt: Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia; Administrative Law Reform and Legal Integration in Hybrid Political Regimes; Legal Cultures and Business Environments in Central Asia; Understanding Islamic Legal Culture and Migration through Ethnographic and Archival Research; MARS: Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective; The Multilevel Orders of Corruption - Insights from a Post-Soviet Context; Living Law and Political Stability in Post-Soviet Central Asia. A Case Study of the Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISBN: 9781035333639; ISBN: 9781035333646