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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Comaroff, Jean, Comaroff, John L., 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Temas:
Crime > Developing countries.
Violence > Developing countries.
Democratization > Developing countries.
Postcolonialism.
Postcolonialisme.
postcolonialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Crime.
Democratization.
Social conditions
Violence.
Kriminalität
Postkolonialismus
Soziale Situation
Developing countries > Social conditions.
Developing countries.
Entwicklungsländer
Aufsatzsammlung.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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