Law and Disorder in the Postcolony
400 pages, 6 halftones 6 x 9
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2006
Cloth $70.00
ISBN: 9780226114088
Published November 2006
Paper $28.00
ISBN: 9780226114095
Published November 2006
Preface
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
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