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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154284003321

Autore

Comaroff Jean

Titolo

The truth about crime : sovereignty, knowledge, social order / / Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago ; ; London : , : The University of Chicago Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-226-42507-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations

Classificazione

LB 80000

Disciplina

364.01

Soggetti

Crime

Police administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Crime, capital, and the metaphysics of disorder: an overview, in three movements -- Crime, policing, and the making of modernity: the state, sovereignty, and the il/legal -- The order of things to come: crime-and-policing in the present continuous forensic fantasy and the political economy of representation: scenes from the brave noir world -- Law-making, law-breaking, and law-enforcement: five uneasy pieces -- Divine detection: policing at the edge -- Imposture, law, and the policing of personhood: the return of Khulekani Khumalo, zombie captive -- Figuring crime: quantifacts, mythostats, and the production of the un/real -- Outsourcing justice, privatizing protection: practices of popular sovereignty -- Sharp endings: a pointed afterimage.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves—it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing—from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the collateral damage of war—they take readers into the disorder of the late modern world. Looking at recent transformations in the triangulation of capital, the state, and governance that have led to an era where crime and policing are ever more complicit, they offer a powerful meditation on the new forms of sovereignty, citizenship, class, race, law, and political



economy of representation that have arisen. To do so, the Comaroffs draw on their vast knowledge of South Africa, especially, and its struggle to build a democracy founded on the rule of law out of the wreckage of long years of violence and oppression. There they explore everything from the fascination with the supernatural in policing to the extreme measures people take to prevent home invasion, drawing illuminating comparisons to the United States and United Kingdom. Going beyond South Africa, they offer a global criminal anthropology that attests to criminality as the constitutive fact of contemporary life, the vernacular by which politics are conducted, moral panics voiced, and populations ruled. The result is a disturbing but necessary portrait of the modern era, one that asks critical new questions about how we see ourselves, how we think about morality, and how we are going to proceed as a global society.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910702444003321

Titolo

H.R. 1964, National Petroleum Reserve Alaska Access Act; H.R. 1965, Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act; H.R. 1394, Planning for American Energy Act of 2013; and H.R. 555, BLM Live Internet Auctions Act : legislative hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on Natural Resources, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. Government Printing Office, , 2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 82 pages) : color illustration

Soggetti

Oil and gas leases - Alaska

Oil and gas leases - United States

Oil-shales - Law and legislation - United States

Energy development - Law and legislation - United States

Land use - Law and legislation - United States

Internet auctions - United States

Government auctions - United States

Legislative hearings.

National Petroleum Reserve (Alaska)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on July 26, 2014).

Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office.

"Serial No. 113-21."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.