Outlaw Capital Roundtable: Everyday Illegalities and the Making of Uneven Development
Jennifer Tucker, Malini Ranganathan, and Teo Ballvé, University of New Mexico | American University | Colgate University
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 | 03:30 pm - 04:45 pm
Zoom
About:
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.
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This event is free and open to the public.
