Willem van Schendel is Professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam and head of the Asia Department of the International Institute of Social History. His publications include The Bengal Borderland: Beyond State and Nation in South Asia. Itty Abraham is Director of the South Asia Institute and Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Secrecy, and the Postcolonial State and co-editor of Southeast Asian Diasporas.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Making of IllicitnessItty Abraham and Willem van Schendel
1. Spaces of Engagement: How Borderlands, Illicit Flows, and Territorial
States InterlockWillem van Schendel
2. The Rumor of Trafficking: Border Controls, Illegal Migration, and the
Sovereignty of the Nation-StateDiana Wong
3. Talking Like a State: Drugs, Borders, and the Language of ControlPaul
Gootenberg
4. "Here, Even Legislators Chew Them": Coca Leaves and Identity Politics in
Northern ArgentinaSilvia Rivera Cusicanqui
5. Seeing the State Like a Migrant: Why So Many Non-criminals Break
Immigration LawsDavid Kyle and Christina A. Siracusa
6. Criminality and the Global Diamond Trade: A Methodological Case StudyIan
Smillie
7. Small Arms, Cattle Raiding, and Borderlands: The Ilemi TriangleKenneth
I. Simala and Maurice Amutabi
Consolidated Bibliography
Contributors
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