Law and Disorder in the Postcolony

Comaroff, Jean; Comaroff, John L.

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“…Ethnography often begins, and in part ends, with a critique of its violent, unruly and chaotic nature, whether under colonial or postcolonial regimes. The Comaroffs spoke of the "unwritten agreements, unruly populations, and protean social arrangements" of the imperial frontier "with little of the ethical restraint that reined them in 'back home' " (Jean Comaroff and Comaroff 2012). Where planners aspire to new social orders and development, in what Anna Tsing tellingly called "free-for-all frontiers" (2005), anthropologists often portray the ensuing environmental havoc and social disorder.…”

Section: Rethinking the Frontiermentioning

confidence: 97%

Post-frontier Resource Governance

Larsen

2015

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As tomorrow's challenges become increasingly global and the North-South divide narrows, the International Relations and Development Series edited by the Graduate Institute in Geneva relies on an approach to global problems that integrates international relations and development studies. It aims to promote research concentrating on global and multi-level governance, involving the United Nations and other international organisations as well as key regions and regional organisations. The distinctiveness of this series lies in the combination of a wide disciplinary range, including political science, international economics, international law, anthropology and history from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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Section: Rethinking the Frontiermentioning

confidence: 97%

Post-frontier Resource Governance

Larsen

2015

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“…Jean and John Comaroff (2006aComaroff ( , 2006b, in their work on law and order in the postcolony, are more aware of these political dynamics when they describe the links between discursively constructed crime problems and law enforcement. These crime problems help, above all, to justify the work and continued existence of law enforcement agencies.…”

Section: E X I S T I N G R E S E a R C H O N L A W E N F O R C E M E N Tmentioning

confidence: 97%

The politics of law enforcement in Nigeria: lessons from the war on drugs

Klantschnig

2009

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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This article examines the institutional politics of law enforcement in Nigeria by focusing on illegal drug control since the mid 1980s. It assesses the available academic research on law enforcement governance, and contrasts it with an in-depth case study of drug law enforcement. The case study confirms views of the politicised nature of law enforcement. However, it goes beyond the patron–client centred approach to politics prevalent in the literature on African policing. The article adds an institutional dimension to the study of law enforcement governance, highlighting processes of centralisation, exclusion and shifting bureaucratic interests that have been central to the development of Nigerian drug law enforcement. It is based on previously inaccessible data from inside Nigerian drug law enforcement.

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“…Recent scholarship reveals that binaries like 'core' and 'periphery,' 'North' and 'South,' 'developed' and 'developing' cannot be thought of as self-contained and homogenous (Comaroff & Comaroff, 2006). The designation of the world into an affluent core and an impoverished periphery homogenizes both 'core' and 'periphery' as it remains impervious to the entanglements of poverty and prosperity, risk and security, and formal and informality that characterize both the core and peripheries of the world.…”

Section: Globalization Articulatedmentioning

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Articulating Globalization: Exploring the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) Terrain

Chatterjee

2016

Organization Studies

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Notwithstanding the 'yawns of familiarity' that globalization produces in some circles, there is little doubt that 'globalization' continues to provide direction and momentum to much of the present social and political configurations. With this in mind, the present study attempts to come to terms with globalization in one particular site: the much acclaimed bottom/base of the pyramid (BOP) approach. Employing Stuart Hall's notion of articulation, I examine some of the 'foundational' BOP texts to understand how and to what ends globalization is constituted within the BOP project. Extrapolating from themes like markets, capitalism, poverty, and technology, the article attempts to highlight what remains unsaid and inexplicit about 'globalization.' At one level, the article explores the 'metapragmatics of globalization' (how account/ talk about global phenomenon are put to use in different contexts), and, at another level, it offers a critical examination of some of the underlying themes of the BOP proposition. Broadly, the article argues that despite its commitment to contesting dominant forms of globalization, the BOP project shows solidarity with a remarkably reductive view of globalization, and in so doing becomes complicit in maintaining status quo thereby re-inscribing (unwittingly) long standing patterns of marginalization. In the spirit of 'hermeneutics of emergence,' the article calls for greater self-reflexivity within the BOP domain which, among other things, would help problematize its central themes and ideas in ways that are, perhaps, more adequate to thinking about the fraught relationship between business and poverty.

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Law and Disorder in the Postcolony

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