{"product_id":"contraband-cultures-jennifer-cearns-9781800087255","title":"Contraband Cultures: Reframing smuggling across Latin America and the Caribbean","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fresh and non-stereotypical take on smuggling in Latin America.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eContraband Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e reframes smuggling activities across Latin America (including the Caribbean) and its diasporas through the lenses of kinship, political movements, economic exchange, and resistance to capitalist state hegemony, countering the popular representations of smuggling in the region as chaotic, lawless, violent, and exotic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book includes a broad range of chapters from social science and humanities scholars, and it uses various methodologies, theoretical traditions, and analytic approaches to explore the efficacy and valence of smuggling as a lens to examine personhood, materiality, statehood, and political (dis)connection across Latin America. Its combination of historic documentation and contemporary ethnographic research highlights the development of these cultural practices while grounding them in the capitalist and colonial refashioning of the entire region since the sixteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Cearns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 180008725X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781800087255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e UCL Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.62d","brand":"Jennifer Cearns","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46767343796479,"sku":"9781800087255","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7938df1f-de90-42a8-b945-62eeaa5f6a59.jpg?v=1744169541","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contraband-cultures-jennifer-cearns-9781800087255","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}