Norms and Illegality - Intimate Ethnographies and Politics

Based on in-depth ethnographic research, Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Political Control explores the entanglements and contradictions of legal and illegal practices across multiple cultures.

List of contents

Introduction: Risk and Hope: Daily Life Subversions of the Norm
Part I Framing of Norms and Illegalities, Theoretical to Ethnographic
Chapter 1: Anthropological Shades of Grey: Informal Norms and Becoming (Il)legal
Chapter 2: Methodological Legalism
Chapter 3: On Doing Fieldwork, Outspokenly: Ethics, Money and Antiquities Illegal Trade
Part II Ethnographies of Illegalities and the Reframing of Norms and Margins
Chapter 4: Street Economies, Illegality and Rights in Antigua Guatemala
Chapter 5: Informal Economies, Illegal Subjects: Roma and Senegalese Traders in Rome
Chapter 6: Repositioning the Edge: The Resilience of Wholesale Vegetable Markets in Benguet Upland Philippines
Chapter 7: Frontier Justice: Making Norms, Negotiating Authority and Becoming Responsible in Northern Madagascar's Artisanal Mining Sector
Chapter 8: To Legally Beg or Illegally Work? Norms and Illegality Among Asylum Seekers in Hong Kong

About the author

Edited by Cristiana Panella and Walter E. Little - Contributions by Florence E. Babb; Isabella Clough Marinaro; Michael Herzfeld; Walter E. Little; Gordon Mathews; Lorelei C. Mendoza; B. Lynne Milgram; Cristiana Panella; Alan Smart; Andrew Walsh and Rudi

Product details

• Authors: Cristiana Little Panella
• Assisted by: Walter E. Little (Editor), Little Walter E. (Editor), Cristiana Panella (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781793646309
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-630-9
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Crime & criminology, Penology & punishment