Governance Beyond the Law (eBook)

Abel Polese is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction of Dublin City University, Ireland. Alessandra Russo is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France.Francesco Strazzari is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy, and Adjunct Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway. 

1.Introduction: ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’: transnational perspectives on the extra-legal fieldAbel Polese, Alessandra Russo, Francesco StrazzariPART I: The social morality of crime2.Conversations bamakoises in time of crisis: criminalisation of everyday life and state formation in Mali Giovanni Zanoletti3.The Criminalisation of Informal Practices in the Danube Delta: how and why Giulia Prelz Oltramonti and Mihnea Tanasescu4.Use of language in blurring the lines between legality and illegality Gulzat Botoeva5.Mothers as pot legalizers: From illegality to morality in medical use of cannabis in Latin AmericaLuis Rivera Vélez6.Negotiated Prohibition: The Social Organisation of Illegal Gambling in Ukraine Anna Markovska and Yuliya Zabyelina7.Coping mechanisms of Ukrainian patients: bribes, gifts, donations, and connections Olena Levenets, Tetiana Stepurko, Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot8.Collateral Damage of Global Governance on the Local Level - An analysis of fragmented international regimes in the Brazilian Amazon Regine SchönenbergPART II: Opposition of “us” against “them” 9.Informality and the Revolutionary state in Russia Joseph Nicholson10.Informality, Criminality, and Local Autonomy in the Balkans: A Geographic-Based Analysis of State Confines Regis Darques11.‘Stealing from the state is not stealing really, it is a national sport’ - A study of informal economic practices and low-level corruption in HungaryFanni Gyurko12.Cross-border smuggling in north Niger: the morality of the informal and the construction of a hybrid order Luca Raineri13.Informality and state-society relations in post-2011 TunisiaRuth Hanau Santini and Stefano Pontiggia14.If It All Went Up In Smoke. Undercover Communities and Cannabis Regulation in the Emerald Triangle Liza CandidiPART III: Informality and resistance 15.The First Moldovan Students in Romania (1990–1991): Informal Traders or Agents of Change?Petru Negura16.Nothing to Lose: The Power of Subtle Forms of Resistance in an Immigration Detention Centre Annalisa Lendaro17.Out of the rubble: affective infrapolitics in BangkokJaime Moreno18.Informal governance on cryptomarkets for illicit drugsMeropi Tzanetakis