{"product_id":"outlaw-capital-everyday-illegalities-and-the-making-of-uneven-development-9780820364483","title":"Outlaw Capital  Everyday Illegalities and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an ethnography of the largest contraband economy in the Americas running through Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, \u003cem\u003eOutlaw Capital\u003c\/em\u003e shows how transgressive economies and gray spaces are central to globalized capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith elegant prose and vivid ethnographic detail, Outlaw Capital reveals how the class conflicts at the heart of Paraguay’s globalized illicit economies have built nothing less than an entire city. It’s a compelling and well-told story.\" - Teo Ballvé, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A story told from the borderlands between Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, Outlaw Capital upends commonsensical notions about capitalism and corruption everywhere. Here is a riveting and beautifully rendered ethnography of contraband trade and the lives of poor, racialized street vendors. It is also an unflinching critique of the powerful politicians and elite financiers who stand most to benefit from economic transgressions and their selective 'whitening' or legalization. A massive contribution to critical corruption studies and the political economy of racial capitalism.\" - Malini Ranganathan, coauthor of \u003cem\u003eCorruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eOutlaw Capital \u003c\/em\u003enavigates Ciudad del Este’s labyrinthine street economy—its contraband hidden in plain sight—to show how licit and illicit flows of goods become entangled with state power to produce shifting boundaries of (il)legality. This is a first-rate global ethnography that reveals a partially hidden abode of commodity circulation that has become central to capitalist accumulation.\" - Nik Theodore, coauthor of \u003cem\u003eFast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"LUP - University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038618386775,"sku":"9780820364483","price":22.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/outlaw-capital-everyday-illegalities-and-the-making-of-uneven-development-9780820364483","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}