Vitamin Sea against Corruption: Informality and Corruption through the Interdisciplinary Lens

Buchenau, Klaus and Frey, Barbara and Jović, Jovana and Lecić, Miloš and Matković, Damjan and Olaru Mihai, Vasile (2022) Vitamin Sea against Corruption: Informality and Corruption through the Interdisciplinary Lens. Comparative Southeast European Studies, 70 (2). pp. 358-378. ISSN 2701-8199

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Abstract

This conference report combines the latest theoretical developments within the areas of corruption and informality research in Southeastern Europe from the eighteenth until the twenty-first century with a presentation of the ongoing research conducted by the Regensburg Corruption Cluster and the inputs of some of the leading experts within these fields. The authors outline a practical interdisciplinary framework for developing a historical anthropology of corrup-tion, by integrating knowledge and methods from various disciplines, such as history, linguistics and business studies. In doing so, they show how the ideo-logical–normativistic approaches of the so-called “anticorruption consensus” can be overcome: by lowering the analytical scale to the level of informal practices and following their evolution through historical circumstances. This report also shows the persistent difficulties in establishing “ethical universalism” in Southeastern Europe with examples ranging from eighteenth-century Phanariot rule in Walla-chia to twenty-first-century corruption scandals in Serbia and Croatia.

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