The truth about crime

Sovereignty, knowledge, social order

Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2017
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-017-6 (ISBN)

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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 multibilliondollar scams of toobigtofail 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 and policing are ever more complicit, they offer a powerful meditation on the new forms of sovereignty, citizenship, class, race, law, and political economy of representation that have arisen. To do so, the Comaroffs draw on their vast knowledge of South Africa, especially, and its struggle to build a democracy founded on the rule of law out of the wreckage of long years of violence and oppression.
There they explore everything from the fascination with the supernatural in policing to the extreme measures people take to prevent home invasion, drawing illuminating comparisons to the United States and United Kingdom. Going beyond South Africa, they offer a global criminal anthropology that attests to criminality as the constitutive fact of contemporary life, the vernacular by which politics are conducted, moral panics voiced, and populations ruled. The result is a disturbing but necessary portrait of the modern era, one that asks critical new questions about how we see ourselves, how we think about morality, and how we are going to proceed as a global society.

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. She is the author or coauthor of many books. John L. Comaroff is the Harold W. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. Together with Jean Comaroff he has coauthored or coedited numerous books, including Of Revelation and Revolution, volumes 1 and 2, Ethnography and the Historical Imagination, Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism, and Law and Disorder in the Postcolony.

Preface; Part one crime, capital, and the metaphysics Of disorder: an overview, in three movements; 1.1 Crime, Policing, and the Making of Modernity the state, sovereignty, and the illegal; 1.2 The Order of Things to Come: crime-and-policing in the present continuous; 1.3 Forensic Fantasy and the Political Economy of Representation: scenes from the brave noir world; Part two lawmaking, Lawbreaking, And Lawenforcement: five uneasy pieces; 2.4 Divine Detection: policing at the edge; 2.5 Imposture, Law, and the Policing of Personhood: the return of Khulekani Khumalo, zombie captive; 2.6. Figuring Crime: quantifacts, mythostats, and the production of the unreal; 2.7. Outsourcing Justice, Privatizing Protection: practices of popular sovereignty; 2.8 The Point of Sharp Things: an afterimage; Acknowledgements; Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2016
Verlagsort	Johannesburg
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-77614-017-6 / 1776140176
ISBN-13	978-1-77614-017-6 / 9781776140176
Zustand	Neuware