Mahmoud Keshavarz is Senior Lecturer in Design Studies at the University of Gothenburg. He is the author of The Design Politics of the Passport. He co-edits the journal Design and Culture. Shahram Khosravi is Professor in Anthropology at Stockholm University. He is the author of Young and Defiant in Tehran, which was highly recommended by Choice. He has also contributed to publications such as The New York Times.
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
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Introduction: To See Like a Smuggler - Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram
Khosravi
1. Smuggling as a Collective Enterprise: Ethiopian/Wollo Migration to Saudi
Arabia - Tekalign Ayalew Mengiste
2. Aurelian Dreams: Gold Smuggling and Mobilities across Colonial and
Contemporary Asia - Nichola Khan
3. The Border Merchant - Aliyeh Ataei
4. Smugglers and the State Effect at the Mexico-Guatemala Border - Rebecca
B. Galemba
5. Kolbari: Workers Not Smugglers - Amin Parsa
6. From the Smuggling of Goods to the Smuggling of Drugs in La Guajira,
Colombia - Javier Guerrero-C
7. Contesting Common Sense: Smuggling across the India-Bangladesh Border -
Debdatta Chowdhury
8 The Bus Economy: A 90-day Gateway across Zimbabwe-South Africa - Kennedy
Chikerema
9. Illicit Design Sensibilities: The Material and Infrastructural
Potentialities of Drug Smuggling - Craig Martin
10. A Partial Offering: In and Out of Smuggling - Simon Harvey
Afterword: Seeing Freedom - Nandita Sharma
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Notes on Contributors
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