# Harvard University Professors Jean and John Comaroff Launch The Truth About Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order #### calendar\_today Date and Time **July 27, 2017** 01:00PM - 01:00PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **WiSER Seminar Room 6th Floor, Richard Ward Building East Campus, Wits University, South Africa** WiSER and Wits University Press invite you to a launch THE TRUTH ABOUT CRIME Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order By Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff ![Comaroff Book Image](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/african-studies/files/unknown_01.jpeg?itok=RiOyXYYN) In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but entirely convincing claim about our times: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves – it is by our crimes. With special attention to South Africa’s struggle to build a democracy founded on the rule of law, they sweep outward to survey an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing, from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions. Looking at recent transformations in the triangulation of capital, the state, and governance that have led to an era where crime and policing are ever more complicit, they offer a powerful meditation on new forms of sovereignty, citizenship, class, race, law, and political economy of representation – even the production of truth – that have arisen in the late modern world. Speakers: Achille Mbembe and Keith Breckenridge Respondents: Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff Chair: Hlonipha Mokoena **ORGANIZER(S):** WiSER and Wits University Press **EVENT WEBSITE:** RSVP to See also:- [ CAS Africa Office ](/tags/cas-africa-office) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://africa.harvard.edu/node/1118771/event-feed.ics) Copy link link