Law and Disorder in the Postcolony Paperback - 2006
by Jean Comaroff (Editor)
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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 a world order dominated by new modes of governance, new sorts of empires, new species of wealth--an order that tends to criminalize 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 many postcolonies show signs of endemic disorder, they also fetishize the law, its ways and its means. How are we to explain the coincidence of disorder with a fixation on legalities? Law and Disorder in the Postcolony addresses this question, entering into critical dialogue with such theorists as Jean-Fran�ois Bayart, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben. 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.
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- Title Law and Disorder in the Postcolony
- Author Jean Comaroff (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New edition
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date 2006-11-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780226114095 / 0226114090
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 6.36 x 0.78 in (22.76 x 16.15 x 1.98 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Developing countries - Social conditions, Postcolonialism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006006541
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.971
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