Classic and Contemporary Themes in African Studies
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November 11th, 2008
Chicago – Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, John L. Comaroff discusses his hope for a renewed public discourse in an Obama administration with Chris Lydon on Radio Open Source. The discussion took place in The Watson Institute’s Jukowsky Forum on Friday the 7th, 2008. The radio show is titled ‘The Pariah-to-Messiah-Moment: John […]
April 3rd, 2009
Between 1976 and 2010, Alan Macfarlane, a professor in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge University, conducted a series of interviews with anthropologists from around the world. Two of those anthropologists included John and Jean Comaroff. They discussed their early lives, their work in the field, life under the Apartheid regime and anthropology, among other […]
Classic and Contemporary Themes in African Studies, Classic and Contemporary Themes in Anthropology, Colonialism, Crime, Decoloniality, Enchantment of Modernity, Ethnicity, Identity, Justice, Late Capitalism, Law, Lawfare, Legal Theology, Neo/Liberalism, Order, Political Life, Postcoloniality, Punishment, Race, Religion and Spiritual Economies, Themes in Social Theory and Method, Violence
June 19th, 2018
New York – In 2018, John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff spoke at The New School for Social Research about “Crime, Sovereignty, and the State: the Metaphysics of Global Disorder.” “The Global South” has become a shorthand for the universe of non-European, postcolonial peoples; it is that half of the planet about which, conventionally, the “Global […]
June 19th, 2018
New York – In 2018, John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff spoke at The New School for Social Research about “Crime, Sovereignty, and the State: the Metaphysics of Global Disorder.” “The Global South” has become a shorthand for the universe of non-European, postcolonial peoples; it is that half of the planet about which, conventionally, the “Global […]
February 14th, 2022
Between 1976 and 2010, Alan Macfarlane, a professor in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge University, conducted a series of interviews with anthropologists from around the world. Two of those anthropologists included John and Jean Comaroff. They discussed their early lives, their work in the field, life under the Apartheid regime and anthropology, among other […]
Classic and Contemporary Themes in African Studies, Classic and Contemporary Themes in Anthropology, Colonialism, Crime, Decoloniality, Enchantment of Modernity, Ethnicity, Generation; Generationality, Identity, Justice, Late Capitalism, Law, Lawfare, Legal Theology, Neo/Liberalism, Order, Political Life, Postcoloniality, Punishment, Race, Religion and Spiritual Economies, Themes in Social Theory and Method, Violence