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

• 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 non controllato: legal, litigation, law, postcolonial, colonial, colonies, colonialism, postcolonialism, history, historical, academic, scholarly, research, crime, criminal, violence, nation state, theory, theoretical, empire, government, governance, wealth, poverty, race, corruption, market, marketplace, court, courtroom, economies, essay collection, disorder, legalities, developing countries, democratization, social studies
• 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
• ISBN: 9786611959449; 1-281-95944-8; 0-226-11410-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782688603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II