Law and disorder in the postcolony
Law and disorder in the postcolony
- Chicago University of Chicago Press 2006
- x,357p. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
9780226114095
GBA671714 bnb
Uk
Crime--Developing countries.
Violence--Developing countries.
Democratization--Developing countries.
Postcolonialism.
Developing countries--Social conditions.
Electronic books.
364.97124 / LA-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
9780226114095
GBA671714 bnb
Uk
Crime--Developing countries.
Violence--Developing countries.
Democratization--Developing countries.
Postcolonialism.
Developing countries--Social conditions.
Electronic books.
364.97124 / LA-