Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (400 p)
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6 halftones
Ausgabe:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9780226114101
Inhalt:
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
Inhalt:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Law and Disorder in the Postcolony: An Introduction / Comaroff, John L. / Comaroff, Jean -- 2. The Mute and the Unspeakable: Political Subjectivity, Violent Crime, and “the Sexual Thing” in a South African Mining Community / Morris, Rosalind C. -- 3. “I Came to Sabotage Your Reasoning!”: Violence and Resignifications of Justice in Brazil / Caldeira, Teresa P. R. -- 4. Death Squads and Democracy in Northeast Brazil / Scheper-Hughes, Nancy -- 5. Some Notes on Disorder in the Indonesian Postcolony / Spyer, Patricia -- 6. Witchcraft and the Limits of the Law: Cameroon and South Africa / Geschiere, Peter -- 7. The Ethics of Illegality in the Chad Basin / Roitman, Janet -- 8. Criminal Obsessions, after Foucault: Postcoloniality, Policing, and the Metaphysics of Disorder / Comaroff, Jean / Comaroff, John L. -- 9. On Politics as a Form of Expenditure / Mbembe, Achille -- Contributors -- Index
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restricted access online access with authorization star
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780226114095
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780226114088
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.7208/9780226114101
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780226114101
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http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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