Norms and Illegality
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A32=B. Lynne Milgram
A32=Cristiana Panella
A32=Florence E. Babb
A32=Gordon Mathews
A32=Isabella Clough Marinaro
A32=Lorelei C. Mendoza
A32=Michael Herzfeld
A32=Walter E. Little
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B01=Cristiana Panella
B01=Walter E. Little
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criminalization
cultural intimacy
cultural norms
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- ISBN 9781793646309
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 163 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 06 May 2021
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
Cristiana Panella is senior researcher in social and cultural anthropology at the AfricaMuseum.
Walter E. Little is full professor of anthropology at the University at Albany, SUNY.
