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The truth about crime :

(Number (ISBN

022642488X

(Number (ISBN

022642491X

(Number (ISBN

9780226424880

(Number (ISBN

9780226424910

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9780226425078

Title Proper

The truth about crime :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

sovereignty, knowledge, social order /

First Statement of Responsibility

Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xix, 347 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

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23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-325) and index.

Text of Note

Crime, capital, and the metaphysics of disorder: an overview, in three movements -- Crime, policing, and the making of modernity: the state, sovereignty, and the il/legal -- The order of things to come: crime-and-policing in the present continuous -- Forensic fantasy and the political economy of representation: scenes from the brave noir world -- Law-making, law-breaking, and law-enforcement: five uneasy pieces -- Divine detection: policing at the edge -- Imposture, law, and the policing of personhood: the return of Khulekani Khumalo, zombie captive -- Figuring crime: quantifacts, mythostats, and the production of the un/real -- Outsourcing justice, privatizing protection: practices of popular sovereignty -- Sharp endings: a pointed afterimage.

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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 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 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.

International Standard Book Number

9780226425078

Crime.

Police administration.

71.65 criminality as a social problem.

Apartheid

Bewachungsgewerbe

Crime.

Gesellschaftsordnung

Innere Sicherheit

Kriminalität

Police administration.

Politische Anthropologie

Politischer Wandel

Polizeiaufgabe

Privatisierung

Strafjustiz

Südafrika

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Edition

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Book number

Comaroff, Jean

Comaroff, John L.,1945-

Date of Transaction

20200822102319.0

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[Book]

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