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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

A special issue of PUBLIC CULTURE, this collection of essays forms an empirically grounded, conceptual discussion that posits global millennial capitalism as a historical formation.

Este ensayo examina la situación del estado-nación postcolonial a través del prisma de la catástrofe medio ambiental: cómo las plantas «invasoras» pueden llegar a ser un apremiante problema político y lo que esto puede revelar acerca de las cambiantes relaciones entre ciudadanos, comunidad y soberanía nacional bajo condiciones neo-liberales. Siguiendo estas cuestiones en relación al caso de la «nueva» Sudáfrica, planteamos tres características claves de las políticas postcoloniales en una era del laissez-faire: la refiguración del sujeto-ciudadano, la crisis de las fronteras de soberanía y la despolitización de la política. Bajo tales condiciones los «invasores» -tanto plantas como personas- terminan encarnando básicas contradicciones de frontera y pertenencia; la naturaleza extraña (alien-natura) proporciona un lenguage para proclamar nuevas formas de discriminación en plena cultura del «post-racismo» y los derechos civiles. ; This paper examines the predicament of the postcolonial nation-state through the prism of environmental catastrophe: how is it that plant "invaders" can become an urgent political issue, and what might this reveal of the shifting relations among citizenship, community, and national sovereignty under neo-liberal conditions? Pursuing these questions in relation to a case from the "new" South Africa, we posit three key features of postcolonial polities in an era of laissez-faire: the refiguration of the subject-citizen, the crisis of sovereign borders, and the depoliticization of politics. Under such conditions, aliens ˆ both plants and people ˆ come to embody core contradictions of boundedness and belonging; and alien-nature provides a language for voicing new forms of discrimination amidst a culture of "post-racism" and civil rights.