Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 234 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780520940635
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0520940636
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9781429471824
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1433709724
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9781433709722
Serie:
California series in public anthropology 16
Inhalt:
"Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this book, she spent three years traveling to hot spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the United States investigating the dynamics of illegal trade around the world-from blood diamonds and arms to pharmaceuticals, exotica, and staples like food and oil. Global Outlaws peels away the layers of a vast economy that extends from a war orphan in Angola selling Marlboros on the street to powerful transnational networks reaching across continents and oceans. Nordstrom's extraordinary fieldwork includes interviews with scores of informants, including the smugglers, victims, power elite, and profiteers who populate these economic war zones. Her compelling investigation, showing that the sum total of extra-legal activities represents a significant part of the world's economy, provides a new framework for understanding twenty-first-century economics and economic power. Global Outlaws powerfully reveals the illusions and realities of security in all areas of transport and trade and illuminates many of the difficult ethical problems these extra-legal activities pose."--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-223) and index
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The war orphan - The bombed-out shop - Coconuts and cigarettes : some definitions - The Gov'nor's red tractors - Military takeovers (or, how to own a country) - The untold story of the amputees - Robber barons - The border post -- a billion-dollar truck stop (going international) - Romancing the stone : borders and businesspeople - The washing machine : laundering, part one - Diamonds and fish : going global - Ports - Drugs - The cultures of criminals - The cultures of cops - The world-port - The investment machine : laundering, part two - Human cargo - Post-terror : creating (the illusion of) security - Conclusion.
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ISBN 9780520250956
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ISBN 0520250958
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ISBN 9780520250963
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ISBN 0520250966
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Nordstrom, Carolyn, 1953- Global outlaws Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 ISBN 9780520250956
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520250963
Sprache:
Englisch
Mehr zum Autor:
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