Governance Beyond the Law: The Immoral, The Illegal, The Criminal (International Political Economy Series)

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Introduction: “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”: Transnational Perspectives on the Extralegal Field (Abel Polese, Alessandra Russo, Francesco Strazzari)....Pages 1-26 Front Matter ....Pages 27-27 Conversations Bamakoises in Time of Crisis: Criminalisation of Everyday Life and State Formation in Mali (Giovanni Zanoletti)....Pages 29-47 The Criminalization of Informal Practices in the Danube Delta: How and Why (Giulia Prelz Oltramonti, Mihnea Tanasescu)....Pages 49-65 Use of Language in Blurring the Lines Between Legality and Illegality (Gulzat Botoeva)....Pages 67-83 Mothers as Pot Legalizers: From Illegality to Morality in Medical Use of Cannabis in Latin America (Luis Rivera Vélez)....Pages 85-103 Negotiated Prohibition: The Social Organisation of Illegal Gambling in Ukraine (Anna Markovska, Yuliya Zabyelina)....Pages 105-123 Coping Mechanisms of Ukrainian Patients: Bribes, Gifts, Donations, and Connections (Olena Levenets, Tetiana Stepurko, Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot)....Pages 125-143 Collateral Damage of Global Governance on the Local Level: An Analysis of Fragmented International Regimes in the Brazilian Amazon (Regine Schönenberg)....Pages 145-164 Front Matter ....Pages 165-165 Informality and the Revolutionary State in Russia (Joseph Nicholson)....Pages 167-181 Informality, Criminality, and Local Autonomy in the Balkans: A Geographic-Based Analysis of State Confines (Régis Darques)....Pages 183-208 ‘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)....Pages 209-226 Cross-Border Smuggling in North Niger: The Morality of the Informal and the Construction of a Hybrid Order (Luca Raineri)....Pages 227-245 Informality and State-Society Relations in Post-2011 Tunisia (Ruth Hanau Santini, Stefano Pontiggia)....Pages 247-266 Informal Communities and Cannabis Regulation in the Emerald Triangle (Liza Candidi)....Pages 267-287 Front Matter ....Pages 289-289 The First Moldovan Students in Romania (1990–1991): Informal Traders or Agents of Change? (Petru Negură)....Pages 291-308 Nothing to Lose: The Power of Subtle Forms of Resistance in an Immigration Detention Centre (Annalisa Lendaro)....Pages 309-322 Out of the Rubble: Affective Infrapolitics in Bangkok (Jaime Moreno-Tejada)....Pages 323-341 Informal Governance on Cryptomarkets for Illicit Drugs (Meropi Tzanetakis)....Pages 343-361 Back Matter ....Pages 363-367 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 organizations. 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 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