Seeing Like a Smuggler : Borders from Below Paperback / softback
Edited by Mahmoud (University of Gothenburg) Keshavarz, Shahram (Stockholm University) Khosravi
Part of the Anthropology, Culture and Society series
Paperback / softback
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'This conceptually vivid book refreshes our vision' - Ruth Wilson GilmoreThe word smuggler often unleashes a simplified, negative image painted by the media and the authorities.
Such state-centric perspectives hide many social, political and economic relations generated by smuggling.
This book looks at the practice through the eyes of the smugglers, revealing how their work can be productive, subversive and deeply sociopolitical. By tracing the illegalised movement of people and goods across borders, Seeing Like a Smuggler shows smuggling as a contradiction within the nation-state system, and in a dialectical relation with the national order of things.
It raises questions on how smuggling engages and unsettles the ethics, materialities, visualities, histories and the colonial power relations that form borders and bordering. Covering a wide spectrum of approaches from personal reflections and ethnographies to historical accounts, cultural analysis and visual essays, the book spans the globe from Colombia to Ethiopia, Singapore to Guatemala, Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, and from Kurdistan to Bangladesh, to show how people deal with global inequalities and the restrictions of poverty and immobility.
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages, 2 Halftones, black and white; 7 Diagrams
- Publisher:Pluto Press
- Publication Date:20/07/2022
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- ISBN:9780745341613
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages, 2 Halftones, black and white; 7 Diagrams
- Publisher:Pluto Press
- Publication Date:20/07/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780745341613