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Book SynopsisStories of smuggling as acts of resistance and decolonisation
Trade Review'This conceptually vivid book refreshes our vision. We can see how vulnerable people combine, innovate, and revise what they do to make geography from below. There, at the margins, is life in rehearsal'
-- Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of 'Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation'
'At last, an urgent and brilliant collection of histories 'from below', about the people and goods transgressing the borders of global capitalism. The world economy will never look quite the same’
-- Marcus Rediker, co-author of 'The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic'
'Tells amazing stories from the ground of how people negotiate with borders, state, local officials and carry on lives in the midst of everyday border violence. There is no morality play here. Migration, clandestine existence and illegal activities like smuggling - these are not acts to be found in some independent criminal universe. These are part of society's subterranean life'
-- Ranabir Samaddar, Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies at the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group
Table of ContentsSeries Preface
Acknowledgements
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Introduction: To See Like a Smuggler - Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram Khosravi
1. Smuggling as a Collective Enterprise: Ethiopian/Wollo Migration to Saudi Arabia - Tekalign Ayalew Mengiste
2. Aurelian Dreams: Gold Smuggling and Mobilities across Colonial and Contemporary Asia - Nichola Khan
3. The Border Merchant - Aliyeh Ataei
4. Smugglers and the State Effect at the Mexico-Guatemala Border - Rebecca B. Galemba
5. Kolbari: Workers Not Smugglers - Amin Parsa
6. From the Smuggling of Goods to the Smuggling of Drugs in La Guajira, Colombia - Javier Guerrero-C
7. Contesting Common Sense: Smuggling across the India-Bangladesh Border - Debdatta Chowdhury
8 The Bus Economy: A 90-day Gateway across Zimbabwe-South Africa - Kennedy Chikerema
9. Illicit Design Sensibilities: The Material and Infrastructural Potentialities of Drug Smuggling - Craig Martin
10. A Partial Offering: In and Out of Smuggling - Simon Harvey
Afterword: Seeing Freedom - Nandita Sharma
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
