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UNINA9910782688603321 |
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Titolo |
Law and disorder in the postcolony [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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9786611959449 |
1-281-95944-8 |
0-226-11410-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ComaroffJean |
ComaroffJohn L. <1945-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Crime - Developing countries |
Violence - Developing countries |
Democratization - Developing countries |
Postcolonialism |
Developing countries Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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. < |
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