Compliance, Defiance, and ‘Dirty’ Luxury

New Perspectives on Anti-Corruption in Elite Contexts

Tereza Østbø Kuldova, Jardar Østbø, Cris Shore

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9783031571398
• eBook ISBN: 9783031571404
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

This book interrogates the transnational field of (anti-)corruption and elite crime. Using the lens of luxury, art, and antiquities, the contributors reconceptualize the driving dialectics of corruption and anti-corruption. Compliance, Defiance  and 'Dirty' Luxury brings together scholars across criminology, anthropology, sociology, and the humanities to tackle these dialectics from different angles and positions, digging deeper into these corrupt zigzags of compliance and defiance. This approach reveals a self-reinforcing, accelerating, neoliberal perpetuum mobile churning out a frenzy of public-private crime-fighting initiatives that stimulate the expansion of various control and surveillance architectures which time and again fail. This volume opens new theoretical and empirical paths of investigation for criminologists and anthropologists alike. While the book speaks primarily to academic audiences and graduate students, it also appeals to a broad range of professionals.

Tereza Østbø Kuldova is Research Professor and a social anthropologist based at the Work Research Institute, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.

Jardar Østbø is Professor and Head of Programme for Russian Security and Defence Policy at the Institute for Defence Studies, Norwegian Defence University College.

Cris Shore is emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths University of London, UK, and currently Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University, Hungary.

 

 

 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Compliance, Defiance, and ‘Dirty Luxury’: Towards New Perspectives on (Combatting) Elite Crime and Corruption
• 2. Utility and Waste, Moralization, and Hybridization: The Inherent Contradictions of Anti-Luxury Sanctions on the Case of Russian-Owned Gigayachts
• 3. Broker Capitalism, Pandemic Profiteering, and UK Financial Scandals: How Consultancy Firms Leverage Public Money, Defy Regulation, and Help the Rich
• 4. Philanthrocapitalism and the Compliance-Industrial Complex: Doing ‘Good’, Fighting Crime, and Foreclosing Alternatives
• 5. Compliance, Defiance, and Regulations in the Art World: Reflections on the (A)Moral Turn to Financialized Ethics
• 6. Ethics Without Agents Corruption, Financial Crime, and the Interpassive ‘Ethics’ of Compliance
• 7. Road to Compliance in Post-socialist Czechia: From Anti-organized Crime via Anti-corruption to the Commodification of Serious Crime Control
• 8. Toward Trust and Transparency in the Netherlands: Art Market Compliance (and Defiance) Viewed Through Financial Transactions Monitoring at a Major Dutch Bank
• 9. Anti-money Laundering Regulatory Compliance by Private Sector Art Market Actors: Toward a Different Mode of KYC
• 10. Policy, Governance, and Compliance: Illicit Cultural Heritage Artefacts and the Construction of Value
• 11. Archaeological Heritage at Risk: Poland’s Problem with Treasure Hunters
• 12. Instagram Excess and Fraud: Exploring the Relationship Between Internet Celebrities, Luxury, and Fraud in Contemporary Nigeria
• 13. Clean Conscience from ‘Dirty Luxury’: Compliance, Profitable Unhappiness, and the Handwashing of Social Harm and Sexual Exploitation
• 14. Labour Migration, Crime, and ‘Compliance Washing’: A Tailor’s Odyssey from an African Workshop to European Luxury Fashion Multinationals
• Back Matter