With an ethnography of the largest contraband economy in the
Americas running through Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, Outlaw Capital
shows how transgressive economies and gray spaces are central to
globalized capitalism. A key site on the China-Paraguay-Brazil
trade route, Ciudad del Este moves billions of dollars’ worth of
consumer goods—everything from cell phones to whiskey—providing
cheap transit to Asian manufacturers and invisible subsidies to
Brazilian consumers. A vibrant popular economy of Paraguayan street
vendors and Brazilian "ant contrabandistas" capture some of the
city’s profits, contesting the social distribution of wealth
through an insurgent urban epistemology of use, need, and care. Yet
despite the city’s centrality, it is narrated as a backward,
marginal, and lawless place. Outlaw Capital contests these
sensationalist stories, showing how uneven development and the
Paraguayan state made Ciudad de Este a gray space of profitable
transgression. By studying the everyday illegalities of both elite
traders and ordinary workers, Jennifer L. Tucker shows how
racialized narratives of economic legitimacy across scales—not
legal compliance—sort whose activities count as formal and legal
and whose are targeted for reform or expulsion. Ultimately, reforms
criminalized the popular economy while legalizing, protecting, and
"whitening" elite illegalities.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Georgia Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| Authors: |
Jennifer Lee Tucker
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
277 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8203-6447-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-8203-6447-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780820364476 |
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