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The Truth about Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order
Jean Comaroff
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Description for The Truth about Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 227 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the collateral damage of war they take readers into the disorder of the late modern world. Looking at recent transformations in the triangulation of capital, the state, and governance that have led to an era where crime ... Read more
In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the collateral damage of war they take readers into the disorder of the late modern world. Looking at recent transformations in the triangulation of capital, the state, and governance that have led to an era where crime ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226424910
SKU
V9780226424910
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About Jean Comaroff
Jean Comaroff is the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology and an Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies at Harvard University, where John L. Comaroff is the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology and an Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies. Both Honorary Professors at the University of ... Read more
Reviews for The Truth about Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order
What is 'crime'? A social pathology? A violation of social order? The object or raison d'etre of law enforcement? ...Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff unpack the place of crime in postcolonial, neoliberalized South Africa and beyond... Their argument is that the impact of postcolonial neoliberalism in South Africa, and similar shifts in ideas of citizenship and forms and practices of ... Read more