The truth about crime : sovereignty, knowledge, social order / Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff.
Publisher's description: 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 o...
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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.