04387nam 2200505 450 991015428400332120210125114017.00-226-42507-X10.7208/9780226425078(CKB)4340000000022893(MiAaPQ)EBC4765785(DE-B1597)568221(DE-B1597)9780226425078(OCoLC)1233041303(EXLCZ)99434000000002289320160728h20162016 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe truth about crime sovereignty, knowledge, social order /Jean Comaroff and John L. ComaroffChicago ;London :The University of Chicago Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (368 pages) illustrations0-226-42488-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.CrimePolice administrationcrime, sovereignty, knowledge, policing, petty theft, scams, embezzlement, banks, financial institutions, corporations, greed, success, ambition, war, modernity, criminality, capital, state power, governance, complicity, race, ethnicity, systemic racism, bias, south africa, democracy, citizenship, class, law, representation, political economy, violence, oppression, discrimination, segregation, white supremacy, moral panic, politics, history, nonfiction, police, administration, legal system, criminal justice.Crime.Police administration.364.01LB 80000rvkComaroff Jean251727Comaroff John L.1945-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154284003321The truth about crime2008852UNINA