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Illicit flows and criminal things : states, borders, and the other side of globalization /

This book 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 bor...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Schendel, Willem van, Abraham, Itty, 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2005.
Series:Tracking globalization.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.