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Subverting Borders

Doing Research on Smuggling and Small-Scale Trade

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  1. Bettina Bruns
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  2. Judith Miggelbrink
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  • Doing Research on Economic Practices Across Borders

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-9
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  2. Introduction

    • Bettina Bruns, Judith Miggelbrink
    Pages 11-19

  3. Who has the right to forbid and who to trade? Making sense of illegality on the Polish-Ukrainian border

    • Abel Polese
    Pages 21-38

  4. Cross-border trade and identity in the Afghan-Iranian border region

    • Just Boedeker
    Pages 39-58

  5. Šverc and the Šinobus: Small-scale smuggling in Vojvodina

    • Rory Archer, Krisztina Rácz
    Pages 59-83

  6. Navigating uncertainty: Observations from the Congo-Rwanda border

    • Martin Doevenspeck, Nene Morisho Mwanabiningo
    Pages 85-106

  7. Transborder trade on the Russian-Chinese border: Problems of interethnic communication

    • Kapitolina Fedorova
    Pages 107-128

  8. An economy of survival and reinventing the way of life: The case of oil commerce in Southeast Turkey

    • Gulcan Kolay
    Pages 129-146

  9. Shadow Triangle. Trans-border smuggling between Kosovo, Albania and Montenegro

    • Enza Roberta Petrillo
    Pages 147-170

  10. From the Pamir frontier to international borders: Exchange relations of the borderland population

    • Tobias Kraudzun
    Pages 171-191

  11. Scales of trade, informal economy and citizenship at Georgian-Azerbaijani borderlands

    • Lale Yalçin-Heckmann, Nino Aivazishvili
    Pages 193-211

  12. Crossing conflicting state boundaries: The Georgian-Abkhazian Ceasefire Line

    • Andrea Weiss
    Pages 213-231

  13. ‘Winter-tyres-for-a-flower-bed’: Shuttle trade on the Finnish-Russian border

    • Anna Stammler-Gossmann
    Pages 233-255

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 257-260
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About this book

Small-scale trade and smuggling are part of everyday life at many borders. These trading activities often compensate for economic shortage that many households are suffering from in consequence of e.g. political transformation processes. Despite of the diversity of transborder small-scale trade and smuggling and their wide dispersion, not only in Europe, their reception within social sciences is relatively low. The contributions shed therefore light on research in geography and neighboured disciplines. On the basis of empirical research findings from borders all over the world, the authors thrive to analyse mechanisms and conditions of the informal activities and to detect parallels and differences of informal economic structures from different perspectives.

This book is valuable reading for researchers in geography, sociology, ethnography, and in political science.

About the authors

Bettina Bruns and Judith Miggelbrink are senior researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Subverting Borders

  • Book Subtitle: Doing Research on Smuggling and Small-Scale Trade

  • Editors: Bettina Bruns, Judith Miggelbrink

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-93273-6

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-531-17788-5Published: 28 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-531-93273-6Published: 08 October 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 210

  • Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology

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