{"product_id":"outlaw-capital-everyday-illegalities-and-the-making-of-uneven-development-paperback","title":"Outlaw Capital: Everyday Illegalities and the Making of Uneven Development - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJennifer L. Tucker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an ethnography of the largest contraband economy in the Americas running through Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, \u003ci\u003e Outlaw Capital\u003c\/i\u003e shows how transgressive economies and gray spaces are central to globalized capitalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutlaw Capital\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJENNIFER L. TUCKER is assistant professor in the Community and Regional Planning Department at the University of New Mexico. She has published articles in journals such as \u003ci\u003eAntipode\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePlanning Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 274\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647486746726,"sku":"9780820364483","price":57.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/YR8rX3nB_F9780820364483.webp?v=1779472229","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/outlaw-capital-everyday-illegalities-and-the-making-of-uneven-development-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}