Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below

Stories of smuggling as acts of resistance and decolonization. 'This conceptually vivid book refreshes our vision' -...
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Author: Mahmoud Keshavarz
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Language: English
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Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below by Keshavarz, Mahmoud

Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below

CHF 35.41

Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below

CHF 35.41
Author: Mahmoud Keshavarz
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Stories of smuggling as acts of resistance and decolonization.

'This conceptually vivid book refreshes our vision' - Ruth Wilson Gilmore

The 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 illegalized 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 about 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.

Author: Mahmoud Keshavarz, Shahram Khosravi
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 07/20/2022
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780745341613

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