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The Truth About Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order,Used
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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 Ourselvesit Is By Our Crimes. Surveying An Astonishing Range Of Forms Of Crime And Policingfrom Petty Thefts To The Multibilliondollar Scams Of Toobigtofail Financial Institutions To The Collateral Damage Of Warthey 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.
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