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.Shahram Khosravi is Professor in Anthropology at Stockholm University. He is the author of Young and Defiant in Tehran, which was highly recommended by Choice. He has also contributed to publications such as The New York Times.

'This conceptually vivid book refreshes our vision. We can see how vulnerable people combine, innovate, and revise what they do to make geography from below. There, at the margins, is life in rehearsal'

• Series Preface Acknowledgements About the Cover Image Introduction: 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 Chowdhury 8 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 SharmaBibliography Notes on Contributors Index