
Affiliated Research Professor
Joint appointment
Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University
Education
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of London
Research focus
Legal and political anthropology with a current focus on the tensions between the governance of the new South Africa and the rising incidence of informal justice and cultural policing. Democracy and difference in post-revolutionary societies, and postcolonial political economy in the global south.
Listen to the podcast from BBC 4's "Thinking Allowed" program, broadcast Februay 8, 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qcjwn (Comaroff segment begins at 12.40)
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