Norms and Illegality

Cristiana Panella; Walter E. Little

doi:10.5771/9781793646316

Summary

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.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4630-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4631-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 214
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. 1. Notes No access
1. 1. Framing of Norms and Illegalities, Theoretical to Ethnographic No access
2. Organization of the Book No access
3. Conclusions No access
4. References No access
1. 1. Concluding Comments No access
  2. Notes No access
  3. References No access
2. 1. Legalism, Essentialism, and Formality No access
  2. Realism and Practice No access
  3. 1. Performance, Casuistry, and Deception No access
  4. From Risk to Rule: The Neoliberal Moment No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. References No access
3. 1. Inconvenient Topics: The Social Life of Plundered Things No access
  2. Doing Fieldwork in African Antiquities Trade: Some Methodological Concerns No access
  3. An Elastic Texture: The Network by Relational Clusters No access
  4. Power: Performance and Silence No access
  5. In Money, We Trust: Ethics of Compromise No access
  6. 1. How Much? Objects, Words, and the Market Value of Invisibility No access
    2. Money and Danger No access
  7. 1. Finally, who does care? No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. References No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. 1. 1. Shoe Shiners No access
      2. Polaroid Photographers No access
      3. Maya Handicraft Vendors No access
      4. Food Vendors No access
  3. Urban Heritage Regulation of Street Livelihoods No access
  4. Conclusions No access
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2. 1. The Social Organization of Sourcing Merchandise No access
  2. Resale: Temporalities and Space No access
  3. Objectifying Illegal Bodies No access
  4. Conclusions No access
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3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Advocating for an Inclusive “Cityness” No access
  3. Marketplaces and Gray Spaces of Trade No access
  4. Establishing the LTVTP No access
  5. Organization of LTVTP and Its Parameters of Trade No access
  6. Operationalizing the Potential of Produce Specialization No access
  7. Disposers with No Fixed Site No access
  8. Porters and Consumers No access
  9. Conclusions No access
  10. Acknowledgments No access
  11. Notes No access
  12. References No access
4. 1. Encountering the Abnormal in Ambondromifehy No access
  2. The Rush No access
  3. Back to Normal? No access
  4. References No access
5. 1. The Situation of Asylum Seekers in Hong Kong No access
  2. 1. Laws versus Norms in Hong Kong No access
  3. Implications No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. References No access
1. References No access
Index No access Pages 203 - 208
About the Editors No access Pages 209 - 210
About the Contributors No access Pages 211 - 214