Law and disorder in the postcolony

Publication Data

• Title Law and disorder in the postcolony
• Contributors Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff
• Publisher University of Chicago Press
• Publication date 2006
• Publication location Chicago, Ill.
• Language English

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
Contributors
Index.

Topics

• Crime :: Developing countries
• Violence :: Developing countries
• Democratization :: Developing countries
• Postcolonialism
• Developing countries :: Social conditions
• Developing countries

Law and disorder in the postcolony. ISBN 9780226114095. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.