Description
This book explores the underbelly of globalisation - the illicit networks of money, drugs, people and arms that make up a multi-billion dollar illegal economy.
This is the dangerous world of trafficking, identified by developed countries as the major threat to international order. In their eyes, it brings unwanted and undocumented people into the hidden crevices of affluent societies; guns and drugs are exchanged for access to the global market through the backdoor. As a result, trafficking is scrutinised, vilified, outlawed, even as free trade is celebrated.
Gargi Bhattacharyya argues that trafficking is the unacknowledged underside of globalisation. The official economy relies on this illegal economy. Without it, globalisation cannot access cheap labour, it cannot reach vulnerable new markets, and it cannot finance expansion into the places most ravaged by human suffering. Traffick has become the secret basis of global expansion.
About the Author
Gargi Bhattacharyya is Professor of Anti/Post/Decolonial Theory at the University of the Arts London. They are the author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), Dangerous Brown Men (Zed, 2008) and Traffick (Pluto, 2005). Gargi Bhattacharyya has published well-received works on questions of racial capitalism, the war on terror, empire and the politics of racism, sexuality and capitalism, migration and bordering. They will join UCL in September 2024 as Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre.
Reviews
I have no hesitation in saying it promises to be an excellent and much needed book and recommend[...] that you accept it. I would certainly use it as recommended reading on my undergraduate course on human rights and globalization -- Professor O'Connell Davidson, Nottingham University
Book Information
ISBN 9780745320472
Author Gargi Bhattacharyya
Format Paperback
Page Count 232
Imprint Pluto Press
Publisher Pluto Press
Weight(grams) 355g
This is the dangerous world of trafficking, identified by developed countries as the major threat to international order. In their eyes, it brings unwanted and undocumented people into the hidden crevices of affluent societies; guns and drugs are exchanged for access to the global market through the backdoor. As a result, trafficking is scrutinised, vilified, outlawed, even as free trade is celebrated.
Gargi Bhattacharyya argues that trafficking is the unacknowledged underside of globalisation. The official economy relies on this illegal economy. Without it, globalisation cannot access cheap labour, it cannot reach vulnerable new markets, and it cannot finance expansion into the places most ravaged by human suffering. Traffick has become the secret basis of global expansion.
About the Author
Gargi Bhattacharyya is Professor of Anti/Post/Decolonial Theory at the University of the Arts London. They are the author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), Dangerous Brown Men (Zed, 2008) and Traffick (Pluto, 2005). Gargi Bhattacharyya has published well-received works on questions of racial capitalism, the war on terror, empire and the politics of racism, sexuality and capitalism, migration and bordering. They will join UCL in September 2024 as Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre.
Reviews
I have no hesitation in saying it promises to be an excellent and much needed book and recommend[...] that you accept it. I would certainly use it as recommended reading on my undergraduate course on human rights and globalization -- Professor O'Connell Davidson, Nottingham University
Book Information
ISBN 9780745320472
Author Gargi Bhattacharyya
Format Paperback
Page Count 232
Imprint Pluto Press
Publisher Pluto Press
Weight(grams) 355g
