John Comaroff
Research Professor
- 750 N. Lake Shore Drive
- 4th Floor
- Chicago, IL 60611
Joint appointment
Harold W. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in Anthropology and the College, University of Chicago
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.
Projects
- Popular Justice, Communal Violence, and Alternative Policing in the New South Africa (2004-2008)
- Latest finding: Jan 22, 2008, with Jean Comaroff
- South Africa is currently beset by so-called “vigilantism,” a term that covers a range of different kinds of “alternative” policing, retributive violence, and popular justice,…
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Commentary
Apr 30, 2010
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)
Ethno-theme parks, Native…
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Publications
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Ethnicity, Inc
- Book
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“Reflections on the Rise of Legal Theology: Law and Religion in the 21st Century”
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“Reflections on the Anthropology of Law, Governance, and Sovereignty in a Brave Neo World”
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Presentations
- Detective Fictions: Further Notes on Policing the Postcolony
- Oct 2009
- On the Rise of Legal Theology: Law and Religion in the 21st Century
- Sep 2009
- The Politics of Law
- Jul 2009
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Professional Service & Recognition
- Mellon Learning Associate, Bates College
- Awarded the Anders Retzius Gold Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, presented by the King of Sweden, April 2007
- Member, Editorial Group, Journal of Anthropological Research
- Member, Editorial Group, Annual Review of Law and Social Science
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Hagar: International Social Science Review
- Member, Editorial Board, Afrika Spectrum
- Member, International Review Committee, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
- Member, International Advisory Board, Social Dynamics
- Member, International External Panel of Reviewers, Kuwait University
- Member, College of Reviewers, Canada Research Chairs Program, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Awarded Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize, Law and Society Association
- Associated Scholar, Center on Law and Globalization, American Bar Foundation and the University of Illinois College of Law
- Member, Board of Directors, Human Rights Program, University of Chicago
Links
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