Logistics and Power in Illegitimate Markets

Telling supply chain stories about illegal drugs and counterfeit goods, I explain how the enhanced logistics of e-commerce has expanded and diversified organized crime, incorporating it within the so-called legitimate economy. As the freest mode of trade, illegal logistics reveal the social and cultural consequences of two centuries of laissez-faire economics and fifty years of neoliberal trade policies.

Followed by a drinks reception. All welcome but please register to attend.

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Professor of English at University of California in Riverside

Susan Zieger writes about the modern history and literature of consumerism. Her first two books explored addiction and media immersion in the nineteenth century.

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