Illicit Flows and Criminal Things - States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization

Informationen zum Autor Willem van Schendel is Professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam and head of the Asia Department of the International Institute of Social History. His publications include The Bengal Borderland: Beyond State and Nation in South Asia. Itty Abraham is Director of the South Asia Institute and Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Secrecy, and the Postcolonial State and co-editor of Southeast Asian Diasporas. Klappentext Examines the "dark side" of globalization. Zusammenfassung Examines the "dark side" of globalization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: The Making of IllicitnessItty Abraham and Willem van Schendel 1. Spaces of Engagement: How Borderlands, Illicit Flows, and Territorial States InterlockWillem van Schendel 2. The Rumor of Trafficking: Border Controls, Illegal Migration, and the Sovereignty of the Nation-StateDiana Wong 3. Talking Like a State: Drugs, Borders, and the Language of ControlPaul Gootenberg 4. "Here, Even Legislators Chew Them": Coca Leaves and Identity Politics in Northern ArgentinaSilvia Rivera Cusicanqui 5. Seeing the State Like a Migrant: Why So Many Non-criminals Break Immigration LawsDavid Kyle and Christina A. Siracusa 6. Criminality and the Global Diamond Trade: A Methodological Case StudyIan Smillie 7. Small Arms, Cattle Raiding, and Borderlands: The Ilemi TriangleKenneth I. Simala and Maurice Amutabi Consolidated Bibliography Contributors Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Willem Abraham Schendel, Willem Van Abraham Schendel, Willem (EDT)/ Abraham Van Schendel, Willem Abraham Van Schendel
• Con la collaborazione di: Itty Abraham (Editore), Willem Van Schendel (Editore), Willem van Schendel (Editore)
• Editore: Indiana University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 04.11.2005
• EAN: 9780253218117
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21811-7
• Pagine: 280
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Serie: Tracking Globalization; Tracking Globalization; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto penale, diritto processuale penale, criminologia