Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/320660 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Illicit Economies and Development (JIED) [ISSN:] 2516-7227 [Volume:] 4 [Issue:] 3 [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 230-240
Publisher: 
LSE Press, London
Abstract: 
Provoked by Charles Tilly's analogy of state-making as organized crime (1985), this issue aims at better understanding the material conditions of illicit city-making - that is, of urbanization and criminal governance, as well as the criminalizing discourses and strategies that underpin them. In opposition to the liberalist paradigm of states vs. illegitimate enemies, Tilly proposed to see the dynamics of state-making (and the negotiation of protection and extraction involved therein) as akin to the dynamics of organized crime. After all, both seek to establish territorial sovereignty based on their capacity to monopolize violence. More importantly, this analogy illuminates the way in which states can enact their protection rackets without a pre-established legitimate authority. Bringing this analogy to the urban realm - seeing city-making as continuously imbricated in attempts to foster the legitimacy of heterogeneously authored protection rackets - this special issue elicits the practices, flows, extraction, and actors involved in illicit city-making, as well as the processes that deem them so.
Subjects: 
Crime
Urban Development
Urban Planning
Materiality
Authority
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Creative Commons License: 
cc-by Logo
Document Type: 
Article

Files in This Item:
File
Size





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.