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Contraband Corridor: Making a Living at the Mexico--Guatem
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- ISBN
- 9780804799133
- Subject Area
- Social Science, Business & Economics
- Publication Name
- Contraband Corridor : Making a Living at the Mexico--Guatemala Border
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Subject
- Economic Conditions, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Criminology
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Weight
- 21.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
080479913X
ISBN-13
9780804799133
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038826422
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Publication Name
Contraband Corridor : Making a Living at the Mexico--Guatemala Border
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Subject
Economic Conditions, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Criminology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
21.9 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2017-006525
Reviews
Taking a fascinating look at the middlemen, customs agents, and residents animating the shadowy world of border control, Contraband Corridor draws us into the Guatemala/Mexico frontier with riveting accounts of what matters to the inhabitants and why it matters, against a backdrop of rapidly shifting geopolitical considerations. Theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich, this powerful book shifts commonly held notions of what it means to sustain border life., "Galemba has given us a rare glimpse into everyday life in the shadows along the Mexico-Guatemala border. Her grounded, 'bottom up' account draws much-needed attention to this too often overlooked border while carefully avoiding the alarmism and sensationalism found in popular depictions of cross-border smuggling."--Peter Andreas, Brown University, Taking a fascinating look at the middlemen, customs agents, and residents animating the shadowy world of border control, Contraband Corridor draws us into the Guatemala-Mexico frontier with riveting accounts of what matters to the inhabitants and why it matters, against a backdrop of rapidly shifting geopolitical considerations. Theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich, this powerful book shifts commonly held notions of what it means to sustain border life., " Contraband Corridor is a rich and thoughtful analysis of community dynamics on a part of the Mexico-Guatemala border....Galemba has written an excellent ethnography, rich in detail and content, historically contextualizing each of her arguments."--Jorge Choy-Gómez, PoLAR, Contraband Corridor dares to humanize those involved with the trafficking of contraband. This unique ethnography offers an intimate approach to the lives of Mexico-Guatemala border inhabitants and their struggles to survive in neoliberal times. Galemba's landmark book helps readers understand a region where smuggling is conceived as free trade and borders are not walls that divide but pathways for encounters., " Contraband Corridor dares to humanize those involved with the trafficking of contraband. This unique ethnography offers an intimate approach to the lives of Mexico-Guatemala border inhabitants and their struggles to survive in neoliberal times. Galemba's landmark book helps readers understand a region where smuggling is conceived as free trade and borders are not walls that divide but pathways for encounters."--R. Aída Hernández Castillo, author of Histories and Stories from Chiapas: Border Identities in Southern Mexico, " Contraband Corridor provides an ethnographically rich glimpse into how border communities navigate transnational power dynamics....We recommend Contraband Corridor as insightful reading for scholars, students, and advocates interested in trade, labour, informal and illicit economies, border securitization, and the broader impact of state violence on marginalized communities in the global economy."--Yvette Servin, Rosemary Giron, Diane Martinez, Yareli Pineda, and Katie Dingeman, Border Criminologies, Galemba has given us a rare glimpse into everyday life in the shadows along the Mexico-Guatemala border. Her grounded, 'bottom up' account draws much-needed attention to this too often overlooked border while carefully avoiding the alarmism and sensationalism found in popular depictions of cross-border smuggling., " Contraband Corridor is an extremely well-written, carefully observed ethnography that provides a real feel for the life of a border region that President Trump has unfairly characterized as anarchic and scary. Her discussion of the ad hoc methods of border control developed by non-state actors, as well as the different strata of local smugglers, is fascinating."--Howard Campbell, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, " Contraband Corridor is an outstanding contribution to the literature on informal economics in Latin America. Its ethnographic approach humanizes everyday smugglers, challenges the stereotype of the backward and ignorant peasant, and highlights powerful forms of local organization and governance. Taken together [Galemba's] work defies the commonly held notion of the margins as lawless, chaotic, and dangerous. Rather, borders are transgressed, commodities flow, and life goes on sometimes with the unwanted intervention of the state."--James H. McDonald, New York Journal of Books, "Taking a fascinating look at the middlemen, customs agents, and residents animating the shadowy world of border control, Contraband Corridor draws us into the Guatemala-Mexico frontier with riveting accounts of what matters to the inhabitants and why it matters, against a backdrop of rapidly shifting geopolitical considerations. Theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich, this powerful book shifts commonly held notions of what it means to sustain border life."--Jennifer Burrell, University at Albany, SUNY
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
364.133609727
Table Of Content
Introduction: A Paradise for Contraband? 1. Border Entry and Reentries 2. Documenting National Life 3. Corn Is Food, Not Contraband 4. Taxing the Border 5. Phantom Commerce 6. Inheriting the Border 7. Strike Oil Conclusion: The Illicit Trio: Drugs, Arms, and Migrants
Synopsis
The Mexico-Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people. Contraband Corridor seeks to understand the border from the perspective of its long-term inhabitants, including petty smugglers of corn, clothing, and coffee. Challenging assumptions regarding security, trade, and illegality, Rebecca Berke Galemba details how these residents engage in and justify extralegal practices in the context of heightened border security, restricted economic opportunities, and exclusionary trade policies. Rather than assuming that extralegal activities necessarily threaten the state and formal economy, Galemba's ethnography illustrates the complex ways that the formal, informal, legal, and illegal economies intertwine. Smuggling basic commodities across the border provides a means for borderland peasants to make a living while neoliberal economic policies decimate agricultural livelihoods. Yet smuggling also exacerbates prevailing inequalities, obstructs the possibility of more substantive political and economic change, and provides low-risk economic benefits to businesses, state agents, and other illicit actors, often at the expense of border residents. Galemba argues that securitized neoliberalism values certain economic activities and actors while excluding and criminalizing others, even when the informal and illicit economy is increasingly one of the poor's only remaining options. Contraband Corridor contends that security, neoliberalism, and illegality are interdependent in complex ways, yet how they unfold depends on negotiations between diverse border actors., The Mexico-Guatemaia has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit of both good and people. Contraband Corridor seeks to border from the perspective of its inhabitants, including smugglers of corn, clothing, and coffee. Rebecca Berks Galemba details how border residence engage in and justify extralegal practices in the context of heightened borded security, restricted economic opportunities and exclusionary trade policies. Rather than assuming that extralegal activities necessarily threaten the state and formal economy. Contraband Corridor content that security, neoliberal trade integration, and illegal practices are interdependent in complex ways yet how they unfold depends on negotiation between diverse border actors.
LC Classification Number
HJ6767.G35 2018
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