Law and disorder in the postcolony / edited by Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Comaroff, Jean.

Comaroff, John L., 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--Developing countries.

Crime.

Violence--Developing countries.

Violence.

Democratization--Developing countries.

Democratization.

Postcolonialism.

Developing countries--Social conditions.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Are postcolonies haunted more by criminal violence than other nation-states? The usual answer is yes. In Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, Jean and John Comaroff and a group of respected theorists show that the question is misplaced: that the predicament of postcolonies arises from their place in a world order dominated by new modes of governance, new sorts of empires, new species of wealth-an order that criminalizes poverty and race, entraps the "south" in relations of corruption, and displaces politics into the realms of the market, criminal economies, and the courts. <

Contents:

Law and disorder in the postcolony: an introduction / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff

The mute and the unspeakable: political subjectivity, violent, crime, and "the sexual thing" in a South African mining community / Rosalind C. Morris

"I came to sabotage your reasoning!": violence and resignifications of justice in Brazil / Teresa P.R. Caldeira

Death squads and democracy in Northeast Brazil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Some notes on disorder in the Indonesian postcolony / Patricia Spyer

Witchcraft and the limits of the law: Cameroon and South Africa / Peter Geschiere

The ethics of illegality in the Chad Basin / Janet Roitman

Criminal obsessions, after foucault: postcoloniality, policing, and the metaphysics of disorder / Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff

On politics as a form of expenditure / Achille Mbembe

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611959449

9781281959447

1281959448

9780226114101

0226114104

OCLC:

476228629