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Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, "The Truth about Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 022642491X | PDF | pages: 368 | 2.1 mb
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.