Punishment

Part 2

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Interview with John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff

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

Weaponizing the legal system

November 14th, 2016

Cambridge – John Comaroff explains lawfare or how authoritarian regimes around the world weaponize the legal system to de-legitimize their opponents. The term lawfare was used in Brazil by the defense of former President Lula to describe the violations of legal procedures by the Brazilian courts, as he was a victim of a collective act […]

blog, Crime, Justice, Law, Lawfare, Legal Theory, Punishment

Interrogating the Global Dis/Order

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 […]

blog, Classic and Contemporary Themes in African Studies, Colonialism, Crime, Decoloniality, Enchantment of Modernity, Justice, Late Capitalism, Neo/Liberalism, Occult Economies, Order, Other Specters, Political Life, Postcoloniality, Punishment, Violence

authoritarian populism, crime, Democracy, global disorder, new magical economies, political economy

Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff

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