Criminal Obsessions, after Foucault: Postcoloniality, Policing, and the Metaphysics of Disorder

Abstract

800 1. MichaelWilliams,The EighthMan (Oxford, 2002), p. 163.Williams is also the general manager of the Cape TownOpera at the Artscape Theater, one of Cape Town’s premier cultural centers. His detective novels, one of which has been dramatized for local schools, are published in the Oxford University Press Southern African Fiction series. 2. In our forthcoming study, Policing the Postcolony: Crime, the State, and theMetaphysics of Disorder (esp. chaps. 1 and 5), we interrogate patterns of crime and their representation in South Africa, past and present—and annotate, in detail, both primary and secondary data on the topic. Given constraints of space in this context, we are compelled to offer a relatively sketchy set of references in support of our statements here and below. For further relevant evidentiarymaterials, andmaterials on evidence, see theNedbank ISS Crime Index and the monographs published by the Institute of Security Studies; these are to be found on the web at www.iss.org.za Criminal Obsessions, after Foucault: Postcoloniality, Policing, and the Metaphysics of Disorder