Reviews

“As the editors point out in their insightful introduction, rising criminality in postcolonies is not merely an antisocial response to poverty, exclusion, or scarcity; nor is it simply the result of a breakdown in the state monopoly of the legitimate use of violence. It is also the expression of a “dialectic of law and dis/order, […]

This provocative book is critically important reading for anyone seeking to understand the economic and political transformations of the current period in both the global South and North. It offers a broad theoretical framework along with detailed and fascinating case studies. The book is valuable for law and society scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, criminologists, […]

This major collection, with a masterful introduction by the editors, presents new ways to understand how the globalized legal order bears the signs of its colonial heritage while providing a hyperlegal space for new negotiations about order, crime and justice in many postcolonial societies. It offers a feast of empirical insights that bring the anthropology […]

For the Comaroffs, capitalism at the end of the millennium is also millenarian capitalism. Globalization can be thought of as an economic process radically addressing the nature of labour and provoking responses that highlight the occult or spectral power of the global economy. Moreover, the nature of these responses is dualist: it entails both the […]

Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism “brings together nine informative and insightful essays that address ‘the confounding effects of liberalization’ and prompt new ways of thinking about the transnational contours of capitalism. Each contribution offers an eye-opening analysis—grounded in solid research and, as with four of them, in fieldwork—of capitalist crises involving consumption and […]

I would like to acknowledge how difficult it is, in this noisy age of ours…to nurture a scholarly and public voice that can be legitimately regarded as daring, original and authentic. Yet, this is exactly what Jean and John Comaroff have achieved not only throughout their previous scholarly works (the depth and breadth of which […]

Jean and John Comaroff put forward their case in the strongest possible terms, and they do so with flair, eloquence, and brilliance: that Africa in particular and the global South more broadly are in the vanguard of world history, generative of global futures and theory to match. This is a book that will be debated […]

Ethnicity, Inc. is a thought-provoking and novel commentary on this widely recognizable phenomenon and offers an important contribution to the classical anthropological themes of ethnicity, culture, and globalization… [T]he authors’ approach is not limited by the usual conventions of anthropology but, rather, takes the reader from one global example to another. These illustrations are woven […]

The writing is sharp…always likely to grab the reader’s attention with something new. The study of ethnicity and indeed of neoliberalism will never be the same after the publication of this book.