Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below Keshavarz Mahmoud
Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below Keshavarz Mahmoud Stories of smuggling as acts of resistance and decolonization. Such state-centric perspectives hide many social, political, and economic…
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Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below Keshavarz Mahmoud
Stories of smuggling as acts of resistance and decolonization. Such state-centric perspectives hide many social, political, and economic relations generated by smuggling. 'This conceptually vivid book refreshes our vision' - Ruth Wilson GilmoreThe word smuggler often unleashes a simplified, negative image painted by the media and the authorities.
It raises questions about how smuggling engages and unsettles the ethics, materialities, visualities, histories, and the colonial power 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.