Outlaw Capital Roundtable: Everyday Illegalities and the Making of Uneven Development

Authors

Latin American and Iberian Institute
Jennifer Tucker, University of New Mexico

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Description

Join us for a book talk and panel with author and UNM faculty Jennifer Tucker, joined by Malini Ranganathan and Teo Ballvé. With an ethnography of the largest contraband economy in the Americas running through Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, Outlaw Capital shows how transgressive economies and gray spaces are central to globalized capitalism

Malini Ranganathan is an associate professor in the School of International Service at American University. She is a scholar of urban environmental justice interested in the political economy of land, labor, and ecology in the capitalist city.

Teo Ballvé is an Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Geography at Colgate University. His research has focused on the drug trade, conflict, rural development, and right-wing politics in the Americas.

Jennifer L. Tucker is an associate professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of New Mexico. Her research focuses on urban inequality, social justice struggles and the frontiers of racial capitalism in the Americas.

Publication Date

1-30-2024

Recommended Citation

Latin American and Iberian Institute and Jennifer Tucker. "Outlaw Capital Roundtable: Everyday Illegalities and the Making of Uneven Development." (2024). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/laii_events/114