Cearns, Jennifer and Beach, Charles (Eds).
(2024)
Contraband Cultures: Reframing smuggling across Latin America and the Caribbean.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Contraband Cultures: Reframing smuggling across Latin America and the Caribbean |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800087262 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800087262 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087262 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2024 Text © Contributors, 2024 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2024 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Cearns, J. and Beach, C. (eds) 2024. Contraband Cultures: Reframing smuggling across Latin America and the Caribbean. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087262 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses |
| Keywords: | Latin America, Caribbean, contraband, smuggling, borders |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10196284 |
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