
Ebook: Law and disorder in the postcolony
Author: Jean Comaroff, John L Comaroff
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- City: Chicago
- Language: English
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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 thatRead more...