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Law and disorder in the postcolony [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff



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Titolo: Law and disorder in the postcolony [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
Disciplina: 364.9712/4
Soggetto topico: Crime - Developing countries
Violence - Developing countries
Democratization - Developing countries
Postcolonialism
Soggetto geografico: Developing countries Social conditions
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: ComaroffJean  
ComaroffJohn L. <1945->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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. <
Titolo autorizzato: Law and disorder in the postcolony  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786611959449
1-281-95944-8
0-226-11410-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910454459803321
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