I have been blessed with a long, fulfilling career as a scholar and teacher. For several decades I have taught and mentored many hundreds of students, among them more than 200 Ph.D. candidates. Many have gone on to impressive careers in a variety of disciplines....
CAMBRIDGE, MA - A Chinese translation of John L. and Jean Comaroff's pathbreaking Ethnicity, Inc., is underway and expected to be issued later this year. First published in 2009 by the University of Chicago Press in the USA and by the University of the Witwatersrand...
Published in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 38(2):365-76, 2018 Keith Hart and John Comaroff in conversation with Ravinder Kaur RK: The 2013 Human Development Report entitled The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World...
The Legalization of Everyday Life: Reflections on Law/fare, Politics, and the History of the Present. Interview with Andrea Kretschmann, Special edition on "Wissen im Recht,” (eds.) Andrea Kretschmann, Caroline Voithofer, and Christoph Stoll. Juridikum 2:257- 63,...
Thoughts on Theorizing from the South: An Interview with John Comaroff, conducted by Lisandro Claudio. Published in Social Transformations: Journal of the Global South, 3(1):3-18, 2015. Also published in The Johannesburg Salon, 10:30-38;...
In this video Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff discussed their book Theory from the South, touching on some of their life long themes. The post 2008 economic crash caused Northern states to experience racial tension, political corruption and the kinds of ailments...
The Obama Moment in America reminds the Chicago anthropologist John Comaroff of the Mandela Moment in his native South Africa in the early 1990s. The whole world has embraced the Obama Moment as its own, Comaroff says, because it marks “the reentry of a pariah nation...