TY  - BOOK
AU  - Comaroff,Jean
AU  - Comaroff,John L.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Law and disorder in the postcolony
AV  - HN980 .L36 2006eb
U1  - 364.9712/4 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Crime
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Violence
KW  - Democratization
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10265961
ER  -