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Law and disorder in the postcolony
Title
Law and disorder in the postcolony [electronic resource] / edited by Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff.
ISBN
0226114082 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226114088 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226114090 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226114095 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Physical Description
x, 357 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 30, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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
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Index.
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