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Law and disorder in the postcolony
Record details
- ISBN: 0226114090 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0226114082 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780226114095 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780226114088 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
x, 357 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
print - Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Law and disorder in the postcolony : an introduction / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff -- 2. The mute and the unspeakable : political subjectivity, violent crime, and "the sexual thing" in a South African mining community / Rosalind C. Morris -- 3. "I came to sabotage your reasoning!" : violence and resignifications of justice in Brazil / Teresa P. R. Caldeira -- 4. Death squads and democracy in Northeast Brazil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- 5. Some notes on disorder in the Indonesian postcolony / Patricia Spyer -- 6. Witchcraft and the limits of the law : Cameroon and South Africa / Peter Geschiere -- 7. The ethics of illegality in the Chad basin / Janet Roitman -- 8. Criminal obsessions, after Foucault : postcoloniality, policing, and the metaphysics of disorder / Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff -- 9. On politics as a form of expenditure / Achille Mbembe. |
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| Subject: | Crime -- Developing countries Violence -- Developing countries Democratization -- Developing countries Postcolonialism Developing countries -- Social conditions |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Nicola Valley Institute of Technology.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver Campus | HN980 .L36 2006 (Text) | 224012 | Regular Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
