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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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Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Other Authors: Comaroff, Jean (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Comaroff, John L., 1945- (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006
Chicago : [2008]
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Crime > Developing countries
Democratization > Developing countries
Postcolonialism
Violence > Developing countries
Postcolonialisme
Crime
Democratization
Kriminalität
Kriminalität
Postkolonialismus
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology
Social conditions
Soziale Situation
Violence
postcolonialism
Developing countries > Social conditions
Developing countries
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505 0 |a 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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