1. Introduction: ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’: transnational perspectives on the extra-legal field
Abel Polese, Alessandra Russo, Francesco Strazzari
PART I: The social morality of crime
2. Conversations bamakoises in time of crisis: criminalisation of everyday life and state formation in Mali
Giovanni Zanoletti
3. The Criminalisation of Informal Practices in the Danube Delta: how and why
Giulia Prelz Oltramonti and Mihnea Tanasescu
4. Use of language in blurring the lines between legality and illegality
Gulzat Botoeva
5. Mothers as pot legalizers: From illegality to morality in medical use of cannabis in Latin America
Luis Rivera Vélez
6. Negotiated Prohibition: The Social Organisation of Illegal Gambling in Ukraine
Anna Markovska and Yuliya Zabyelina
7. Coping mechanisms of Ukrainian patients: bribes, gifts, donations, and connections
Olena Levenets, Tetiana Stepurko, Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot
8. Collateral Damage of Global Governance on the Local Level - An analysis of fragmented international regimes in the Brazilian Amazon
Regine Schönenberg
PART II: Opposition of “us” against “them”
9. Informality and the Revolutionary state in Russia
Joseph Nicholson
10. Informality, Criminality, and Local Autonomy in the Balkans: A Geographic-Based Analysis of State Confines
Regis Darques
11. ‘Stealing from the state is not stealing really, it is a national sport’ - A study of informal economic practices and low-level corruption in Hungary
Fanni Gyurko
12. Cross-border smuggling in north Niger: the morality of the informal and the construction of a hybrid order
Luca Raineri
13. Informality and state-society relations in post-2011 Tunisia
Ruth Hanau Santini and Stefano Pontiggia
14. If It All Went Up In Smoke. Undercover Communities and Cannabis Regulation in the Emerald Triangle
Liza Candidi
PART III: Informality and resistance
15. The First Moldovan Students in Romania (1990–1991): Informal Traders or Agents of Change?
Petru Negura
16. Nothing to Lose: The Power of Subtle Forms of Resistance in an Immigration Detention Centre
Annalisa Lendaro
17. Out of the rubble: affective infrapolitics in Bangkok
Jaime Moreno
18. Informal governance on cryptomarkets for illicit drugs
Meropi Tzanetakis
Abel Polese is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction of Dublin City University, Ireland.
Alessandra Russo is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France.
Francesco Strazzari is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy, and Adjunct Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway.
This volume explores the continuous line from informal and unrecorded practices all the way up to illegal and criminal practices, performed and reproduced by both individuals and organisations. The authors classify them as alternative, subversive forms of governance performed by marginal (and often invisible) peripheral actors. The volume studies how the informal and the extra-legal unfold transnationally and, in particular, how and why they have been/are being progressively criminalized and integrated into the construction of global and local dangerhoods; how the above-mentioned phenomena are embedded into a post-liberal security order; and whether they shape new states of exception and generate moral panic whose ultimate function is regulatory, disciplinary and one of crafting practices of political ordering.
Abel Polese is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction of Dublin City University, Ireland.
Alessandra Russo is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France.
Francesco Strazzari is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy, and Adjunct Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway.