From Critique of the Postcolony to a Postcolonial Form of Critique. On the Uses and Misuses of Foucault in Jean and John Comaroff’s Work

This paper develops a philosophical approach to Jean and John Comaroffs’ work by fleshing out and theoretically articulating the form of critique that the Comaroffs employ in their reading of the “postcolonial” condition. Even though Walter Benjamin’s classical correlation between law and violence p...

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Main Author: María del Rosario Acosta López
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de los Andes 2019-01-01
Series:Revista de Estudios Sociales
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Online Access:https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/full/10.7440/res67.2019.02