Isbn: 9780226114095 - law and disorder in the postcolony (11 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Editor(s): Comaroff, Jean; Comaroff, John L. Num Pages: 400 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: JHM; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 574. . 2006. New edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorJean Comaroff is the Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. John L. Comaroff is the Harold.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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-Francois 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.…