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Law and Disorder in the Postcolony (Hardcover)
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Law and Disorder in the Postcolony (Hardcover)
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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 tends to criminalize 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 many postcolonies show signs of endemic
disorder, they also fetishize the law, its ways and its means. How
are we to explain the coincidence of disorder with a fixation on
legalities? "Law and Disorder in the Postcolony" addresses this
question, entering into critical dialogue with such theorists as
Jean-Francois Bayart, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben. 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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