3. “I Came to Sabotage Your Reasoning!”: Violence and Resignifications of Justice in Brazil

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. Law and Disorder in the Postcolony: An Introduction 1
5. 2. The Mute and the Unspeakable: Political Subjectivity, Violent Crime, and “the Sexual Thing” in a South African Mining Community 57
6. 3. “I Came to Sabotage Your Reasoning!”: Violence and Resignifications of Justice in Brazil 102
7. 4. Death Squads and Democracy in Northeast Brazil 150
8. 5. Some Notes on Disorder in the Indonesian Postcolony 188
9. 6. Witchcraft and the Limits of the Law: Cameroon and South Africa 219
10. 7. The Ethics of Illegality in the Chad Basin 247
11. 8. Criminal Obsessions, after Foucault: Postcoloniality, Policing, and the Metaphysics of Disorder 273
12. 9. On Politics as a Form of Expenditure 299
13. Contributors 337
14. Index 341