Kleptocratic Reputation Laundering and State Crime (Crimes of the Powerful)

This is the pioneering book that investigates reputation laundering at an institutional - state - level.Theorising the nascent phenomenon by situating it within the state crime framework, offering both empirical and theoretical account of reputation laundering at length, this book reveals the ways corruption is facilitated by global institutions and powerful elites.Drawing upon extensive empirical evidence, participant observations, and interviews, Kleptocratic Reputation Laundering and State Crime inspects state violence, corruption and authoritarian repression, and how competing narratives of change reflect these topics.It offers a critical exploration of the elite enablers of reputation laundering, using the Uzbek state as a primary example.It interrogates their role and motivations in engaging in the coordinated campaigns, and modes of justification in framing their own complicity.Building on Bourdieu, the book cultivates an original conceptual framework - elite technocratic habitu