- Title: Lecture - 'Criminal Accounting: Quantifacts and the Production of the Unreal'
- Host Department:
Institute for the Humanities
- Date: 10/27/2004 - 10/27/2004
- Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
- Location: Osterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor
- Contact Information: Nicola Kiver
734 936 3518
nkiver@umich.edu
- Description: Jean Comaroff, Anthropology, University of Chicago
- Detailed Information: Why is it that, to quote a local commentator, “nothing rings with more authority to South African ears than a crime statistic?” What is it that these numbers make real? Why have they become so much more than the tools of criminologists and reformers, so much a pivot of public argument, so vital to the construction of publics and of political discourse?
Jean Comaroff is the Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor in Anthropology and in the College at the University of Chicago. Raised in South Africa, she earned her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. As a 2002-03 Radcliffe Institute Fellow, she worked on “Policing the Postcolony: Crime, Cultural Justice,and the Problem of Order in South Africa.”
Please note the correct time for this event is 4:00 pm and not 12:00 noon as previously advertised.
