The Routledge handbook of smuggling / edited by Max Gallien and Florian Weigand.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Studying smuggling -- Part I: Methods and approaches -- 2. Localising smuggling -- 3. Smuggling ideologies: Theory and reality in African clandestine economies -- 4. Lorries and ledgers: Describing and mapping smuggling in the field -- 5. Quantifying missing and hidden trade: An economic perspective -- 6. Research in dangerous fields: Ethics, morals, and practices in the study of smuggling -- Part II: Borderlands and their people -- 7. Making borders, closing frontiers and identifying smuggling: Comparative histories -- 8. Borderlands, frontiers, and borders: Changing meanings and the intersection with smuggling practices -- 9. Trading spaces: Afghan borderland brokers and the transformation of the margins -- 10. Scales of grey: The complex geography of transnational cross-border trade in the African Great Lakes region -- 11. Smuggling as a legitimate activity?: The OPEC Boys as social bandits in Northern Uganda -- 12. Tall tales and borderline cases: Narratives as meaningful contraband -- 13. Gender and smuggling -- Part III: Smuggling goods -- 14. Cocaine smuggling: Between geopolitics and domestic power struggles -- 15. Sharing the load: The distributive nature of the opium trade in, and from, Afghanistan -- 16. Arms trafficking -- 17. Reconciling competing policies for combatting wildlife trafficking and preventing zoonotic pandemics -- 18. Cigarette smuggling: Trends, taxes and big tobacco -- 19. Theft and smuggling of petroleum products -- 20. Old routes, new rules: Smuggling rice in the porous borders of the Sulu, Celebes, and South China Sea -- 21. The intersections of smuggling flows -- Part IV: Smuggling and mobility -- 22. Humanitarian smuggling in a time of restricting and criminalizing mobility -- 23. Migrant smuggling and the social organisation of cross-border mobility -- 24. Human smuggling, gender and labour circulation in the Global South -- 25. Human smuggling in the time of COVID-19: Lessons from a pandemic -- Part V: Smuggling and conflict -- 26. The illicit trade and conflict connection: Insight from US history -- 27. Smuggling, survival, and civil war economies -- 28. Checkpost chess: Exploring the relationship between insurgents and illicit trade -- 29. Rebels, smugglers and (the pitfalls of) economic pacification --Part VI: Addressing smuggling -- 30. Blue frontiers: In pursuit of smugglers at sea -- 31. Communities and crime wars: Adaptation and resilience -- 32. The "war on smugglers" and the expansion of the border apparatus

"The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling offers a comprehensive survey of interdisciplinary research related to smuggling, reflecting on key themes, and charting current and future trends. Divided into 6 parts and spanning over 30 chapters, the volume covers themes such as mobility, borders, violent conflict, and state politics, as well as looking at the smuggling of specific goods - from rice and gasoline to wildlife, weapons and cocaine. Chapters engage with some of the most contentious academic and policy debates of the twenty-first century, including the historical creation of borders, re-bordering, the criminalisation of migration, and the politics of selective toleration of smuggling. As it maps a field that contains unique methodological, ethical, and risk-related challenges, the book takes stock not only of the state of our shared knowledge, but also reflects on how this has been produced, pointing to blind spots and providing an informed vision of the future of the field. Bringing together established and emerging scholars from around the world, the Routledge Handbook of Smuggling is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of conflict studies, borderland studies, criminology, political science, global development, anthropology, sociology and geography"-- Provided by publisher.