Norms and Illegality

Intimate Ethnographies and Politics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Politics explores liminal and illegal practices in relation to political control and cultural normativity. The contributors draw on years of ethnographic experiences in Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Italy, Madagascar, Mali, Philippines, and Thailand to study the contradictions of what is legal and illegal. They explore the production of illegal subjects by the state, the creation of illegal and normative values by liminal and illegal actors, and the mutual entanglements of legal and illegal in the public domains of markets and trade networks. This volume shows that criminalization policies are not necessarily oriented toward erasing crime. Instead, the contributors maintain that opaque spaces ensure the efficacy of control and outwardly conform to the rhetoric and ethics of global neoliberalism. Within these contexts, the contributors shed light on moral economies and frames of value entailed in systems of representation that have been set up by individuals who are deemed illegal, liminal, or deviant in their confrontations with the state. This book is recommended for students and scholars of anthropology, political science, and urban studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-05-06
Mått163 x 228 x 20 mm
Vikt540 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor228
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793646309

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Introduction: Risk and Hope: Daily Life Subversions of the NormPart I Framing of Norms and Illegalities, Theoretical to EthnographicChapter 1: Anthropological Shades of Grey: Informal Norms and Becoming (Il)legalChapter 2: Methodological LegalismChapter 3: On Doing Fieldwork, Outspokenly: Ethics, Money and Antiquities Illegal TradePart II Ethnographies of Illegalities and the Reframing of Norms and MarginsChapter 4: Street Economies, Illegality and Rights in Antigua GuatemalaChapter 5: Informal Economies, Illegal Subjects: Roma and Senegalese Traders in RomeChapter 6: Repositioning the Edge: The Resilience of Wholesale Vegetable Markets in Benguet Upland PhilippinesChapter 7: Frontier Justice: Making Norms, Negotiating Authority and Becoming Responsible in Northern Madagascar’s Artisanal Mining SectorChapter 8: To Legally Beg or Illegally Work? Norms and Illegality Among Asylum Seekers in Hong Kong

This is a fantastic volume. The editors propose an ambitious research agenda, which invites for a fundamental rethinking of ruling notions of norms and legality. This invitation is taken up in a series of fascinating chapters which delve into the lived realities of legality/illegality. It is rare to find a book which so successfully combines ethnographic thickness with conceptual depth. The book deserves a wide readership across the social and human sciences.