Subverting Borders [electronic resource] : Doing Research on Smuggling and Small-Scale Trade /
Bruns, Bettina.editor.
Miggelbrink, Judith.editor.
Small-scale trade and smuggling are part of everyday life at many borders. These trading activities often compensate for economic shortage that many households are suffering from in consequence of e.g. political transformation processes. Despite of the diversity of transborder small-scale trade and smuggling and their wide dispersion, not only in Europe, their reception within social sciences is relatively low. The contributions shed therefore light on research in geography and neighboured disciplines. On the basis of empirical research findings from borders all over the world, the authors thrive to analyse mechanisms and conditions of the informal activities and to detect parallels and differences of informal economic structures from different perspectives. This book is valuable reading for researchers in geography, sociology, ethnography, and in political science.
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Contents; List of Figures1; List of Tables2; Introduction; References; Who has the right to forbid and who to trade? Making sense of illegality on the Polish-Ukrainian border; 1 Introduction4; 2 Redefining borders and their morality; 3 Scenes from a border; 3.1 A false bottom train; 4 Alternative ways of crossing; 5 Concluding remarks; References; Cross-border trade and identity in the Afghan-Iranian border region; 1 Introduction; 2 Concept; 3 Methodological approach and circumstances of fieldwork; 4 Introducing the Baloch settlement areas; 5 Different kinds of unofficial trading
6 Different perspectives on illicit trade7 Conclusion; References; Šverc and the Šinobus: Small-scale smuggling in Vojvodina; 1 Introduction; 2 Positioning the research; 3 Three decades of šverc: narratives of smuggling in Vojvodina from the1980s to the 2000s; 4 Interpreting šverc: Morality, social and cultural capital; 5 Conclusion; References; Navigating uncertainty: Observations from the Congo-Rwanda border; 1 Introduction; 2 Linking border studies and risk research: the analytical framework; 3 Methodological approach
4 Conflict, trade and merging cities: The Goma-Gisenyi border in context5 Chora Chora, small-scale trade and the cross-border organization of everyday life: using the border to navigate uncertainty; 6 Conclusions; References; Transborder trade on the Russian-Chinese border: Problems of interethnic communication48; 1 Introduction; 2 History of contacts on the Russian-Chinese border: An overview; 3 Modern situation on the Russian-Chinese border: Economic exchange and urban space transformation; 4 Problems of intercultural communication in the border area
5 Interaction on the Russian-Chinese border: Nowadays and in the past6 Conclusions; References; An economy of survival and reinventing the way of life: The case of oil commerce in Southeast Turkey; 1 Introduction; 2 Methodology; 3 Smuggling was (is) always a mechanism to help survive; 4 Habur border gate and the birth of oil commerce; 5 The multiple cross-border actors; 5.1 The truck drivers; 5.2 The customs officers; 5.3 Ruling elite and politicians; 6 Prohibition of oil commerce by Turkey; 7 Conclusion; References
Shadow Triangle. Trans-border smuggling between Kosovo, Albania and Montenegro1 Introduction; 2 Methods; 3 Results; 3.1 The overlapping between the licit and illicit sector; 3.2 (Il)licit for whom? The gap between international and local actors; 3.3 (The International) Fight against the illicit; 4 What does this means in terms of territorialisation?; 5 Conclusion; References; From the Pamir frontier to international borders: Exchange relations of the borderland population; 1 Introduction; 2 Conceptualisations of the borders and their actors
3 Introduction to the Case Study: The District Murghab in the Eastern Pamirs
Includes bibliographical references.
Small-scale trade and smuggling are part of everyday life at many borders. These trading activities often compensate for economic shortage that many households are suffering from in consequence of e.g. political transformation processes. Despite of the diversity of transborder small-scale trade and smuggling and their wide dispersion, not only in Europe, their reception within social sciences is relatively low. The contributions shed therefore light on research in geography and neighboured disciplines. On the basis of empirical research findings from borders all over the world, the authors thrive to analyse mechanisms and conditions of the informal activities and to detect parallels and differences of informal economic structures from different perspectives. This book is valuable reading for researchers in geography, sociology, ethnography, and in political science.
Sociology.
Economic sociology.
Sociology, general.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.