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Souvent considérée comme une catégorie universelle, la « jeunesse » s'est en fait construite comme catégorie socioculturelle à travers les récits de la modernité. La société capitaliste industrielle a créé les conditions d'autonomisation de celle-ci. Mais aujourd'hui, avec la diffusion planétaire du capitalisme néolibéral, les jeunes se voient exclus des économies nationales et des réseaux de production de la culture mondiale. En tant que catégorie sociale, ils ont toutefois acquis une autonomie sans précédent qui se manifeste dans l'espace transnational des cultures matérielles.

Abstract
Notwithstanding Gramsci or Foucault, there remains a tendency, in historical sociology, to explain processes of domination in terms of political and economic forces. In the study of state formation and imperialism, realpolitik is given precedence over ritual, material factors over the moral suasion of the sign. Yet European colonialism was also a cultural project. In Southern Africa, nonconformist missions, the vanguards of empire, conjured up new maps, new systems of relations, new notions of time, production and personhood. From their very first encounters with native communities, it is argued, they sowed the state of colonialism on which the colonial state ‐ and a more enduring condition of dependency ‐ was founded.About sunset the king, attended by his brothers and a few more persons, came to our tent…I said that I had brought a small present for him, as a token of friendship—while opening it he remained silent, not moving even his head, only his eyes towards the parcel. I then took from it a gilded copper comb and put it into his hair, and tied a silver spangled band and tassel round his head, and a chain about his neck, and last of all presented him with a looking glass…

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Editorial Note -- Part One: Theory, Ethnography, Historiography -- 1 Ethnography and the Historical Imagination -- 2 Of Totemism and Ethnicity -- 3 Bodily Reform as Historical Practice -- Part Two: Dialectical Systems, Imaginative Sociologies -- 4 The Long and the Short of It -- 5 Goodly Beasts, Beastly Goods -- 6 The Madman and the Migrant -- Part Three: Colonialism and Modernity -- 7 Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience -- 8 Medicine, Colonialism, and the Black Body -- 9 The Colonization of Consciousness -- 10 Homemade Hegemony -- Bibliography -- About the Book and Authors -- Index.

Intro -- Contents -- Editorial Note -- John and Jean Comaroff. One / Chiefs, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa: An Introduction -- Peter Geschiere. Two / African Chiefs and the Post– Cold War Moment: Millennial Capitalism and the Struggle over Moral Authority -- Sara Berry. Three / Chieftaincy, Land, and the State in Ghana and South Africa -- Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Dineo Skosana. Four / The Salience of Chiefs in Postapartheid South Africa: Reflections on the Nhlapo Commission -- Jocelyn Alexander. Five / The Politics of States and Chiefs in Zimbabwe -- Mariane Ferme. Six / Paramount Chiefs, Land, and Local-National Politics in Sierra Leone -- Benoit Beucher. Seven / Republic of Kings: Neotraditionalism, Aristocratic Ethos, and Authoritarianism in Burkina Faso -- Susan Cook. Eight / Corporate Kings and South Africa's Traditional- Industrial Complex -- Lauren Adrover. Nine / The Currency of Chieftaincy: Corporate Branding and the Commodification of Political Authority in Ghana -- Lauren Coyle. Ten / Fallen Chiefs and Sacrificial Mining in Ghana -- James Smith. Eleven / Colonizing Banro: Kingship, Temporality, and Mining of Futures in the Goldfields of South Kivu, DRC -- Juan Obarrio. Twelve / Third Contact: Invisibility and Recognition of the Customary in Northern Mozambique -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index

In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the collateral damage of war they take readers into the disorder of the late modern world. Looking at recent transformations in the triangulation of capital, the state, and governance that have led to an era where crime and policing are ever more complicit, they offer a powerful meditation on the new forms of sovereignty, citizenship, class, race, law, and political economy of representation that have arisen. To do so, the Comaroffs draw on their vast knowledge of South Africa, especially, and its struggle to build a democracy founded on the rule of law out of the wreckage of long years of violence and oppression. There they explore everything from the fascination with the supernatural in policing to the extreme measures people take to prevent home invasion, drawing illuminating comparisons to the United States and United Kingdom. Going beyond South Africa, they offer a global criminal anthropology that attests to criminality as the constitutive fact of contemporary life, the vernacular by which politics are conducted, moral panics voiced, and populations ruled.

ch 1. Theory from the south -- ch 2. On personhood : a perspective from Africa -- ch 3. Liberalism, policulturalism, and ID-ology : thoughts on citizenship and difference -- ch 4. Nations with/out borders : the politics of being and the problem of belonging -- ch 5. Figuring democracy : an anthropological take on African political modernities -- ch 6. History on trial : memory, evidence, and the forensic production of the past -- ch 7. Alien-nation : zombies, immigrants, and millennial capitalism -- ch 8. Beyond bare life : AIDS, (bio)politics, and the neo world order.

In the second of a proposed three-volume study, John and Jean Comaroff continue their exploration of colonial evangelism and modernity in South Africa. Moving beyond the opening moments of the encounter between the British Nonconformist missions and the Southern Tswana peoples, Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume II, explores the complex transactions-both epic and ordinary-among the various dramatis personae along this colonial frontier.The Comaroffs trace many of the major themes of twentieth-century South African history back to these formative encounters. The relationship between the Briti

Are postcolonies haunted more by criminal violence than other nation-states? The usual answer is yes. In Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, Jean and John Comaroff and a group of respected theorists show that the question is misplaced: that the predicament of postcolonies arises from their place in a world order dominated by new modes of governance, new sorts of empires, new species of wealth-an order that criminalizes poverty and race, entraps the "south" in relations of corruption, and displaces politics into the realms of the market, criminal economies, and the courts. As these essays make