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Law and Disorder in the Postcolony

Engelsk Paperback

Law and Disorder in the Postcolony

Engelsk Paperback
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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 criminalizes 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 postcolonies live in states of endemic disorder, many of them fetishize the law, its ways and itsmeans. How is the coincidence of disorder with a fixation on legalities to be explained? Law and Disorder in the Postcolony addresses this question, entering into critical dialogue with such theorists as Benjamin, Agamben, and Bayart. 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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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 criminalizes 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 postcolonies live in states of endemic disorder, many of them fetishize the law, its ways and itsmeans. How is the coincidence of disorder with a fixation on legalities to be explained? Law and Disorder in the Postcolony addresses this question, entering into critical dialogue with such theorists as Benjamin, Agamben, and Bayart. 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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 400
ISBN-13: 9780226114095
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0226114090
Kategori: Antropologi
Udg. Dato: 15 nov 2006
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 231mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 15 nov 2006
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Kategori Antropologi

ISBN-13 9780226114095

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 400

Udgave

Længde 26mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 231mm

Udg. Dato 15 nov 2006

Oplagsdato 15 nov 2006

Forlag The University of Chicago Press