Contraband Cultures

Contraband Cultures presents narratives, representations, practices and imaginaries of smuggling and extra-legal or informal circulation practices, across and between the Latin American region (including the Caribbean) and its diasporas. Countering a fetishizing and hegemonic imaginary (typically st...

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description Contraband Cultures presents narratives, representations, practices and imaginaries of smuggling and extra-legal or informal circulation practices, across and between the Latin American region (including the Caribbean) and its diasporas. Countering a fetishizing and hegemonic imaginary (typically stemming from the Global North) of smuggling activity in Latin America as chaotic, lawless, violent and somehow ‘exotic’, this book reframes such activities through the lenses of kinship, political movements, economic exchange and resistance to capitalist state hegemony. The volume comprises a broad range of chapters from scholars across the social sciences and humanities, using various methodological techniques, theoretical traditions and analytic approaches to explore the efficacy and valence of ‘smuggling’ or ‘contraband’ as a lens onto modes of personhood, materiality, statehood and political (dis)connection across Latin America. This material is presented through a combination of historic documentation and contemporary ethnographic research across the region to highlight the genesis and development of these cultural practices whilst grounding them in the capitalist and colonial refashioning of the entire region from the sixteenth century to the present day.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1435862024-09-17T04:54:54Z Contraband Cultures Cearns, Jennifer Beach, Charles Latin America;Caribbean;contraband;smuggling;borders;informal economy;piracy;exchange;illegality;trade;anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology::JKVG Drugs trade / drug trafficking Contraband Cultures presents narratives, representations, practices and imaginaries of smuggling and extra-legal or informal circulation practices, across and between the Latin American region (including the Caribbean) and its diasporas. Countering a fetishizing and hegemonic imaginary (typically stemming from the Global North) of smuggling activity in Latin America as chaotic, lawless, violent and somehow ‘exotic’, this book reframes such activities through the lenses of kinship, political movements, economic exchange and resistance to capitalist state hegemony. The volume comprises a broad range of chapters from scholars across the social sciences and humanities, using various methodological techniques, theoretical traditions and analytic approaches to explore the efficacy and valence of ‘smuggling’ or ‘contraband’ as a lens onto modes of personhood, materiality, statehood and political (dis)connection across Latin America. This material is presented through a combination of historic documentation and contemporary ethnographic research across the region to highlight the genesis and development of these cultural practices whilst grounding them in the capitalist and colonial refashioning of the entire region from the sixteenth century to the present day. 2024-09-05T04:17:47Z 2024-09-05T04:17:47Z 2024-09-04T12:41:01Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92974 9781800087248 9781800087255 9781800087286 9781787351899 9781787353237 9781800086142 9781911307907 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/143586 eng Modern Americas open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92974/1/9781800087262.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92974/1/9781800087262.pdf UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781800087262 10.14324/111.9781800087262 29b9f0a3-1b0d-4bdd-99d7-b4d3432d7fcc 9781800087248 9781800087255 9781800087286 9781787351899 9781787353237 9781800086142 9781911307907 294 London open access
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology::JKVG Drugs trade / drug trafficking
Contraband Cultures
title Contraband Cultures
title_full Contraband Cultures
title_fullStr Contraband Cultures
title_full_unstemmed Contraband Cultures
title_short Contraband Cultures
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topic Latin America;Caribbean;contraband;smuggling;borders;informal economy;piracy;exchange;illegality;trade;anthropology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology::JKVG Drugs trade / drug trafficking
topic_facet Latin America;Caribbean;contraband;smuggling;borders;informal economy;piracy;exchange;illegality;trade;anthropology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology::JKVG Drugs trade / drug trafficking
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