Law and disorder in the postcolony (Record no. 25468)
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| fixed length control field | 02503nam a22004334a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 364.9712/4 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Law and disorder in the postcolony |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Chicago : |
| Name of publisher | University of Chicago Press, |
| Year of publication | 2006. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | x, 357 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Crime |
| Topical Term | Violence |
| Topical Term | Democratization |
| Topical Term | Postcolonialism. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Comaroff, Jean. |
| Personal name | Comaroff, John L., |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10265961 |
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