Law and disorder in the postcolony

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Comaroff, Jean.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10265961
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300 |a x, 357 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
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. 
650 0 |a Crime  |z Developing countries. 
650 0 |a Violence  |z Developing countries. 
650 0 |a Democratization  |z Developing countries. 
650 0 |a Postcolonialism. 
651 0 |a Developing countries  |x Social conditions. 
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