Law and disorder in the postcolony
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University of Chicago Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.