Seeing Like a Smuggler - Borders From Below

Stories of smuggling as acts of resistance and decolonisation

List of contents

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

About the Cover Image

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

About the author

Mahmoud Keshavarz is Senior Lecturer in Design Studies at the University of Gothenburg. He is the author of The Design Politics of the Passport. He co-edits the journal Design and Culture.
Shahram Khosravi is Professor in Anthropology at Stockholm University. He is the author of Young and Defiant in Tehran, which was highly recommended by Choice. He has also contributed to publications such as The New York Times.

Product details

• Authors: Mahmoud (University of Gothenburg) Khos Keshavarz
• Assisted by: Mahmoud Keshavarz (Editor), Shahram Khosravi (Editor)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.07.2022
• EAN: 9780745341613
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4161-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Migration, immigration & emigration, Drugs trade / drug trafficking, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, Human Geography, Population and migration geography