Seeing Like a Smuggler

Mahmoud Keshavarz is Senior Lecturer in Design Studies at the University of Gothenburg. He is the author of The Design Politics of the Passport. He co-edits the journal Design and Culture.

Stories of smuggling as acts of resistance and decolonisation

Stories of smuggling as acts of resistance and decolonisation

Series PrefaceAcknowledgementsAbout the Cover ImageIntroduction: To See Like a Smuggler - Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram Khosravi1. Smuggling as a Collective Enterprise: Ethiopian/Wollo Migration to Saudi Arabia - Tekalign Ayalew Mengiste2. Aurelian Dreams: Gold Smuggling and Mobilities across Colonial and Contemporary Asia - Nichola Khan3. The Border Merchant - Aliyeh Ataei4. Smugglers and the State Effect at the Mexico-Guatemala Border - Rebecca B. Galemba5. Kolbari: Workers Not Smugglers - Amin Parsa6. From the Smuggling of Goods to the Smuggling of Drugs in La Guajira, Colombia - Javier Guerrero-C7. Contesting Common Sense: Smuggling across the India-Bangladesh Border - Debdatta Chowdhury8 The Bus Economy: A 90-day Gateway across Zimbabwe-South Africa - Kennedy Chikerema9. Illicit Design Sensibilities: The Material and Infrastructural Potentialities of Drug Smuggling - Craig Martin10. A Partial Offering: In and Out of Smuggling - Simon HarveyAfterword: Seeing Freedom - Nandita SharmaBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex