Illicit economies: customary illegality, moral economies and circulation
Illicit economies: customary illegality, moral economies and circulation
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DOI：
10.1111/tran.12158
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发表时间：
2017-06
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
N. Gregson;M. Crang
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作者：
N. Gregson;M. Crang
本文关注的是如何将非法和违法视为经济的一部分。经济地理学最近才开始应对这一挑战，但方式有限。该文件显示了这些方法的困难，其中主要是重申产品和行为者的法律的/非法二元性，这是由更开放的非法经济体所质疑的。我们借鉴文化经济的工作，通过将经济视为实践，使经济地理学超越这一僵局。该文件发展了一个概念性的帐户，非法经济连接道德经济和物流复杂的全球贸易所产生的不透明性，以强调在做生意的习惯非法的重要性。习惯非法性是指容忍或实施主要是法律的经济行为者的非法活动，而不仅仅是关注非法货物或犯罪行为者。由此可见，虚假既不是商品的一种属性，也不是特定经济行为者的一种属性，而是一种往往与流通相联系的短暂性质。这一论点通过食品部门的三个例子进行了实证说明。最后，本文对未来的研究提出了实证、方法和概念上的建议。
This paper is concerned with how to think the illicit and illegal as part of economies. Economic geography has only recently begun to address this challenge but in limited ways. The paper shows the difficulties with those approaches, chief among which is a reassertion of the legal/illegal binary of products and actors that is contested by the more open term illicit economies. We draw on work in cultural economy to move economic geography beyond this impasse by seeing economy as practice. The paper develops a conceptual account of illicit economies connecting moral economy and the opacities produced by logistically complex global trade to highlight the importance of customary illegality in doing business. Customary illegality is the tolerance or practice of illicit activities by largely legal economic actors rather than just a focus on illegal goods or criminal actors. Illicitness is thus shown to be neither a property of goods nor of particular economic actors, but rather a transient quality often linked to circulation. The argument is illustrated empirically through three examples drawn from the food sector. The conclusion makes suggestions for future research that are empirical, methodological and conceptual.