The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development

Corrupt Places

Francesco Chiodelli, Tim Hall, Ray Hudson, Francesco Chiodelli, Tim Hall, Ray Hudson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781315317649
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range, to date, and have been largely confined to the literatures of anthropology, criminology, policing and, to an extent, political science. However, these debates have impinged little on cognate literatures, not least those of urban and regional studies which remain almost entirely undisturbed by such issues. This volume aims to open up debates across a range of cognate disciplines.

The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development is a multidisciplinary volume that aims to open up these debates, extending them empirically and questioning the dominant discussions of governance and development that have been rooted largely or entirely in the realm of licit and legal actors. The book investigates these issues with reference to a variety of different geographical contexts, including, but not limited to, places traditionally considered to be associated with illegal activities and extensive illicit markets, such as some regions in the so-called Global South. The chapters consider the ways in which these questions deeply affect the daily lives of several cities and regions in some advanced countries. Their comparative perspectives will demonstrate that the illicit and the illegal are an underappreciated structural aspect of current urban and regional governance and development across the globe.

The book is an edited collection of research-informed essays, which will primarily be of interest to those taking advanced undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses in human geography, urban and regional planning and a range of social science disciplines that have an interest in urban and regional issues and issues related to crime and corruption.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Grey governance and the development of cities and regions: The variable relationship between (il)legal and (il)licit
• 2 Drug trafficking in the Sahara Desert: Follow the money and find land grabbing
• 3 Invisible journeys across India-Bangladesh borders and bubbles of corrupt networks: Stories of cross-border ruralurban migration and economic linkages
• 4 Gangsters, guerrillas and the rise of a shadow state in East Timor
• 5 Criminal networks, youth street groups and illicit territorial regulation in Moscow and Tbilisi
• 6 Illegal enterprises and the city: When territorial control is an issue of urban governance. Lessons from Medellín, Colombia
• 7 Mobs, sucanchiuostru, anti-communists: Global and local actors in the Sack of Palermo
• 8 Filling governance and development vacuums: A role for development actors or criminal groups?
• 9 Planning for marijuana: Development, governance, and regional political economy
• 10 Embedding illegality, or when the illegal becomes licit: Planning cases and urban transformations in Rome
• 11 Building legitimacy through the spatial aesthetics of the illicit: Non-state urban actors in post-3.11 Japan
• 12 The corruption of politics or the politics of corruption? Reconsidering the role of organised crime in the geo-politics of corruption
• 13 Corrupt cities: The illicit in local urban development, the Spanish case
• 14 Corruption, crisis and planning policies: The Free-Trade Zone project in the metropolitan area of Valencia, Spain
• 15 Who is corrupt and where lies corruption? Thinking with land use planning violations in Bangalore
• Index