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Are postcolonies haunted more by criminal violence than other nationstates?The usual answer is yes. In Law and Disorder in the Postcolony Jean and JohnComaroff and a group of respected theorists show that the question ismisplaced that the predicament of postcolonies arises from their place in aworld order dominated by new modes of governance new sorts of empires newspecies of wealthan order that tends to criminalize poverty and race entrapsthe south in relations of corruption and displaces politics into the realmsof the market criminal economies and the courts.As these essays make plain however there is another side to postcolonialitywhile many postcolonies show signs of endemic disorder they also fetishize thelaw its ways and its means. How are we to explain the coincidence of disorderwith a fixation on legalities? Law and Disorder in the Postcolony addressesthis question entering into critical dialogue with such theorists as JeanFrancois Bayart Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben. In the process it alsodemonstrates how postcolonies have become crucial sites for the production ofcontemporary theory not least because they are harbingers of a global futureunder construction. «
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