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Titolo: |
Law and disorder in the postcolony / / edited by Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff
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Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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 |
Altri autori: |
ComaroffJean
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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 ![]() |
ISBN: | 9786611959449 |
1-281-95944-8 | |
0-226-11410-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910808052703321 |
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