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SUMMARY:African Studies Global Virtual Forum: Decoloniality and Southern Epistem
ologies—Jean Comaroff
DESCRIPTION:\nJean Comaroff is the Alfred North Whitehead Research Profe
ssor of African and African American Studies and Anthropology at Harvard
University\, and Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town. Edu
cated at the University of Cape Town and the LondonSchool of Economics\,
she was formerly distinguished service professor of anthropology\, and
director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University
of Chicago. Her research\, primarily in southern Africa\, has focused o
n the interplay of capitalism\, modernity\, and colonialism\, and on the
orizing the contemporary\n\nworld from beyond its hegemonic centers. Her
writing has covered a range of more specific topics: religion and medic
ine\, magic and materiality\, law and crime\, democracy and difference.
Publications include Body of Power\, Spirit of Resistance: the Culture a
nd History of a South African People (1985)\, “Beyond the Politics of Ba
re Life: AIDS and the Global Order” (2007)\; “Populism and Late Liberali
sm: A Special Affinity?” (2011)\; also\, with John L. Comaroff\, Of Reve
lation and Revolution (vols. l [1991] and ll [1997])\; Millennial Capita
lism and the Culture of Neoliberalism (2000)\, Law and Disorder in the P
ostcolony (2006)\, Ethnicity\, Inc. (2009)\,Theory from the South\, or H
ow Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa (2011)\, The Truth About Crime
: Sovereignty\, Knowledge\, Social Order (2016)\, (ed. with John Comarof
f)\, The Politics of Custom: Chiefship\, Capital\, and the State in Cont
emporary Africa (2018)\, (with JP Meiu) Ethnicity\, Commodity\, In/Corpo
ration (2020). Recent papers include “The Dis/Appearing Laboring Body\,”
“Vigilantism and the Politics of Sovereignty\,” and “African Masculinit
ies in Question.”\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/a
fr-global-virtual-forum-jean-comaroff/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Jean Comaroff i
s the Alfred North Whitehead Research Professor of African and African A
merican Studies and Anthropology at Harvard University, and Honorary Pro
fessor at the University of Cape Town. Educated at the University of Cap
e Town and the LondonSchool of Economics, she was formerly distinguished
service professor of anthropology, and director of the Chicago Center f
or Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. Her research, prima
rily in southern Africa, has focused on the interplay of capitalism, mod
ernity, and colonialism, and on theorizing the contemporary
world f
rom beyond its hegemonic centers. Her writing has covered a range of mor
e specific topics: religion and medicine, magic and materiality, law and
crime, democracy and difference. Publications include Body of Power
, Spirit of Resistance: the Culture and History of a South Afri
can People (1985), “Beyond the Politics of Bare Life: AIDS and the
Global Order” (2007); “Populism and Late Liberalism: A Special Affinity?
” (2011); also, with John L. Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution<
/em> (vols. l [1991] and ll [1997]); Millennial Capitalism and the C
ulture of Neoliberalism (2000), Law and Disorder in th
e Postcolony (2006), Ethnicity, Inc. (2009),Theory fro
m the South, or How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa (2011),
The Truth About Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order (20
16), (ed. with John Comaroff), The Politics of Custom: Chie
fship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa (2018), (with
JP Meiu) Ethnicity, Commodity, In/Corporation (2020). Recent pa
pers include “The Dis/Appearing Laboring Body,” “Vigilantism and the Pol
itics of Sovereignty,” and “African Masculinities in Question.”
Fo
r more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-global-vir
tual-forum-jean-comaroff/
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