Illicit flows and criminal things : states, borders, and the other side of globalization / edited by Willem van Schendel and Itty Abraham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schendel, Willem van.

Abraham, Itty, 1960-

Series:

Tracking globalization.

Tracking globalization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transnational crime.

State, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Illicit Flows and Criminal Things offers a new perspective on illegal transnational linkages, international relations, and the transnational. The contributors argue for a nuanced approach that recognizes the difference between ""organized"" crime and the thousands of illicit acts that take place across national borders every day. They distinguish between the illegal (prohibited by law) and the illicit (socially perceived as unacceptable), which are historically changeable and contested. Detailed case s

Contents:

Introduction : the making of illicitness / Itty Abraham and Willem van Schendel

Spaces of engagement : how borderlands, illicit flows, and territorial states interlock / Willem van Schendel

The rumor of trafficking : border controls, illegal migration, and the sovereignty of the nation-state / Diana Wong

Talking like a state : drugs, borders, and the language of control / Paul Gootenberg

"Here, even legislators chew them" : coca leaves and identity politics in northern Argentina / Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui

Seeing the state like a migrant : why so many non-criminals break immigration laws / David Kyle and Christina A. Siracusa

Criminality and the global diamond trade : a methodological case study / Ian Smillie

Small arms, cattle raiding, and borderlands : the Ilemi triangle / Kenneth I. Simala and Maurice Amutabi.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612072581

1-282-07258-7

0-253-11157-9

OCLC:

476016240