Disputing Poverty Capital, Reproducing Urban Inequalities: Auto Insurance, Militias, and Car Theft in Brazil
By Deborah Fromm and Luana Motta This essay is part of Emergent Conversation 13, ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime In Brazil,…
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Legalized Extortion: The Exercise of the State’s Fiscal Capacity over Informal Street Vendors at Lima’s Gamarra Market, Peru
By Francesco Ginocchio This essay is part of Emergent Conversation 13, ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime In the city of Lima,…
Repressing the City: Israel’s Less-Than-Lethal Weapons and the Criminalization of Citizens and Dissent
By Erella Grassiani This essay is part of Emergent Conversation 13, ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime It has unfortunately become a…
The Frontier City, Or: What Defines the Urban Condition in Contested Border Areas?
By Markus Hochmüller This essay is part of Emergent Conversation 13, ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime On 15 June 2021, a…
Far-Right Messianism and Urban-Religious Reassembling in Brazil
By Jan Simon Hutta This essay is part of Emergent Conversation 13, ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime “… isn’t it that…
ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime
Emergent Conversation 13 Edited by Frank Müller and Julienne Weegels The research network ILLICITIES explores the ways in which heterogeneous…
Political Action and Generations
Emergent Conversation 12 A discussion with Nataša Garić-Humphrey, Andrew Gilbert, Azra Hromadžić, and Larisa Kurtović Moderated by Jennifer Curtis As…
Urban Sovereignty in the Age of Pandemics: Illicit Actors and the Crisis of Governance
By Graham Denyer Willis & Diane E. Davis This essay is part of Emergent Conversation 13, ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime…
Controlling Movement and Territory: Gangs and the State on Honduras’ Urban Margins
By Antonia McGrath This essay is part of Emergent Conversation 13, ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime “We are a country where…
The Politics of Urban Sand in Rio de Janeiro
By Frank Müller This essay is part of Emergent Conversation 13, ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime Rio de Janeiro’s city-making rests…
