At the end of the 1970s, Chinese merchandise moved to Brazil via
Paraguay, forming an on-the-margins-of-the-law trade chain
involving the production, distribution, and consumption of cheap
goods. Economic changes in the twenty-first century, including the
enforcement of intellectual property rights and the growing
importance of emerging economies, have had a dramatic effect on how
this chain works, criminalizing and dismantling a trade system that
had previously functioned in an organized form and stimulated the
circulation of goods, money, and people at transnational levels.
This book analyses how exchange networks that produced,
distributed, and sold cheap manufactured products animated a huge
and vibrant system from China to Brazil, examining the process at
global, national, and local levels. From a global perspective,
intellectual property is a powerful discourse that governs the
world system by framing the notion of piracy as a criminal
activity. But at the national level, how do nation-states resist
and/or endorse, interpret, and apply a global perspective? And what
effect does that have on how ordinary people organize their lives
around this system? Interweaving discourse on transnational traders
and producers, national projects, and international institutions,
Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South presents low-income
traders not as passive victims of globalization, but as active
actors in the distribution of cheap goods across borders in the
Global South. Based on fifteen years of ethnographic field work in
China and Brazil, Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South will
be of interest to scholars of economic anthropology, development
studies, political economy, Latin America studies, Chinese studies,
and socio-legal studies.
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