{"product_id":"law-and-disorder-in-the-postcolony","title":"Law and Disorder in the Postcolony","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLaw and Disorder in the Postcolony\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJean Comaroff\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780226114095\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Chicago Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2006\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eIllustrated\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e357\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre postcolonies haunted more by criminal violence than other nation-states? The usual answer is yes. In \u003ci\u003eLaw and Disorder in the Postcolony, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 criminalizes poverty and race, entraps the \"south\" in relations of corruption, and displaces politics into the realms of the market, criminal economies, and the courts. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs these essays make plain, however, there is another side to postcoloniality: while postcolonies live in states of endemic disorder, many of them fetishize the law, its ways and itsmeans. How is the coincidence of disorder with a fixation on legalities to be explained? \u003ci\u003eLaw and Disorder in the Postcolony\u003c\/i\u003e addresses this question, entering into critical dialogue with such theorists as Benjamin, Agamben, and Bayart. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Law and Disorder in the Postcolony | Jean Comaroff | Paperback | 9780226114095 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks C 1759518","offer_id":49199695003800,"sku":"1759518","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71AsGD_HP7L.jpg?v=1780697533","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/law-and-disorder-in-the-postcolony","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}