{"product_id":"seeing-like-a-smuggler-9780745341613","title":"Seeing Like a Smuggler","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStories of smuggling as acts of resistance and decolonisation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of 'Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Marcus Rediker, co-author of 'The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Ranabir Samaddar, Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies at the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries Preface \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements \u003cbr\u003e About the Cover Image \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: To See Like a Smuggler - Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram Khosravi\u003cbr\u003e 1. Smuggling as a Collective Enterprise: Ethiopian\/Wollo Migration to Saudi Arabia - Tekalign Ayalew Mengiste\u003cbr\u003e 2. Aurelian Dreams: Gold Smuggling and Mobilities across Colonial and Contemporary Asia - Nichola Khan\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Border Merchant - Aliyeh Ataei\u003cbr\u003e 4. Smugglers and the State Effect at the Mexico-Guatemala Border - Rebecca B. Galemba\u003cbr\u003e 5. Kolbari: Workers Not Smugglers - Amin Parsa\u003cbr\u003e 6. From the Smuggling of Goods to the Smuggling of Drugs in La Guajira, Colombia - Javier Guerrero-C\u003cbr\u003e 7. Contesting Common Sense: Smuggling across the India-Bangladesh Border - Debdatta Chowdhury \u003cbr\u003e 8 The Bus Economy: A 90-day Gateway across Zimbabwe-South Africa - Kennedy Chikerema\u003cbr\u003e 9. Illicit Design Sensibilities: The Material and Infrastructural Potentialities of Drug Smuggling - Craig Martin\u003cbr\u003e 10. A Partial Offering: In and Out of Smuggling - Simon Harvey\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Seeing Freedom - Nandita Sharma\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404322939223,"sku":"9780745341613","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745341613.jpg?v=1730486100","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/seeing-like-a-smuggler-9780745341613","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}