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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226114090

ISBN-139780226114095

eBay Product ID (ePID)52619908

Product Key Features

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameLaw and Disorder in the Postcolony

Publication Year2006

SubjectDeveloping & Emerging Countries, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science

AuthorJohn L. Comaroff

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight18.4 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2006-006541

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal364.9712/4

Table Of ContentPreface 1. Law and Disorder in the the Postcolony: An Introduction John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff 2. The Mute and the Unspeakable: Political Subjectivity, Violent Crime, and "the Sexual Thing" in a South African Mining Community Rosalind C. Morris 3. "I Came to Sabotage your Reasoning!": Violence and Resignifications of Justice in Brazil Teresa P. R. Caldeira 4. Death Squads and Democracy in Northeast Brazil Nancy Scheper-Hughes 5. Some Notes on Disorder in the Indonesian Postcolony Patricia Spyer 6. Witchcraft and the Limits of the Law: Cameroon and South Africa Peter Geschiere 7. The Ethics of Illegality in the Chad Basin Janet Roitman 8. Criminal Obsessions, after Foucault: Postcoloniality, Policing, and the Metaphysics of Disorder Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff 9. On Politics as a Form of Expenditure Achille Mbembe Contributors Index

SynopsisAre 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. As these essays make plain, however, there is another side to postcoloniality: while postcolonies live in states of endemic disorder, many of them fetishize the law, its ways and itsmeans. How is the coincidence of disorder with a fixation on legalities to be explained? Law and Disorder in the Postcolony addresses this question, entering into critical dialogue with such theorists as Benjamin, Agamben, and Bayart. In the process, it also demonstrates how postcolonies have become crucial sites for the production of contemporary theory, not least because they are harbingers of a global future under construction., 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. As these essays make plain, however, there is another side to postcoloniality: while postcolonies live in states of endemic disorder, many of them fetishize the law, its ways and itsmeans. How is the coincidence of disorder with a fixation on legalities to be explained? Law and Disorder in the Postcolony addresses this question, entering into critical dialogue with such theorists as Benjamin, Agamben, and Bayart. In the process, it also demonstrates how postcolonies have become crucial sites for the production of contemporary theory, not least because they are harbingers of a global future under construction.

LC Classification NumberHN980.L36 2006