Law and Disorder in the PostcolonyJean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff 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. |
Contents
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Political Subjectivity Violent Crime and the Sexual Thing in a South African Mining Community Rosalind C Morris | 57 |
Violence and Resignifications of Justice in Brazil Teresa P R Caldeira | 102 |
4 Death Squads and Democracy in Northeast Brazil Nancy ScheperHughes | 150 |
5 Some Notes on Disorder in the Indonesian Postcolony Patricia Spyer | 188 |
Cameroon and South Africa Peter Geschiere
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