Governance Beyond the Law

1. Introduction: 'The good, the bad and the ugly': transnational perspectives on the extra-legal field

Abel Polese, Alessandra Russo, Francesco Strazzari

PART I: The social morality of crime

2. Conversations bamakoises in time of crisis: criminalisation of everyday life and state formation in Mali

Giovanni Zanoletti

3. The Criminalisation of Informal Practices in the Danube Delta: how and why

Giulia Prelz Oltramonti and Mihnea Tanasescu

4. Use of language in blurring the lines between legality and illegality

Gulzat Botoeva5. Mothers as pot legalizers: From illegality to morality in medical use of cannabis in Latin America

Luis Rivera Vélez

6. Negotiated Prohibition: The Social Organisation of Illegal Gambling in Ukraine

Anna Markovska and Yuliya Zabyelina

7. Coping mechanisms of Ukrainian patients: bribes, gifts, donations, and connections

Olena Levenets, Tetiana Stepurko, Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot

8. Collateral Damage of Global Governance on the Local Level - An analysis of fragmented international regimes in the Brazilian Amazon

Regine Schönenberg

PART II: Opposition of "us" against "them"

9. Informality and the Revolutionary state in Russia

Joseph Nicholson

10. Informality, Criminality, and Local Autonomy in the Balkans: A Geographic-Based Analysis of State Confines

Regis Darques

11. 'Stealing from the state is not stealing really, it is a national sport' - A study of informal economic practices and low-level corruption in Hungary

Fanni Gyurko

12. Cross-border smuggling in north Niger: the morality of the informal and the construction of a hybrid order

Luca Raineri

13. Informality and state-society relations in post-2011 Tunisia

Ruth Hanau Santini and Stefano Pontiggia

14. If It All Went Up In Smoke. Undercover

Abel Polese is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction of Dublin City University, Ireland. Alessandra Russo is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France. Francesco Strazzari is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy, and Adjunct Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway.