The illegal as mundane
Field | Value | Language |
dc.contributor.author | Ford, Michele | |
dc.contributor.author | Lyons, Lenore | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-11 | |
dc.date.available | 2019-11-11 | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-10-28 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Michele Ford & Lenore Lyons (2019): The illegal as mundane, Indonesia and the Malay World, DOI: 10.1080/13639811.2019.1648006 | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21343 | |
dc.description.abstract | Ways of studying illegal behaviour are important in the context of Indonesia, a country well known for its failure to deal adequately with the corruption that permeates every level of society. They are perhaps even more salient at the peripheries of the nation-state where government agencies struggle to contain the illegal practices that necessarily emerge where nation-states meet. This article reflects on our experiences conducting a decade-long study of an Indonesian borderlands that, while not initially focused on illegality, came – as a consequence of its ubiquity – to include it as a key construct. This experience led us to grapple not only with methodological questions about how to research illegality but also with assumptions about what illegality is and does. We argue that the only way to recognise and account for the quotidian nature of many kinds of illegal activity in the borderlands is to eschew an ethnography of exception in favour of an ethnography of the mundane. | en_AU |
dc.description.sponsorship | This project was funded by Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project grant DP0557368. | en_AU |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | en_AU |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis Online | en_AU |
dc.relation | DP0557368 | en_AU |
dc.rights | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Indonesia and the Malay World on 28 October 2019, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13639811.2019.1648006 | en_AU |
dc.subject | border studies | en_AU |
dc.subject | ethnography | en_AU |
dc.subject | gender | en_AU |
dc.subject | illegality | en_AU |
dc.subject | methodology | en_AU |
dc.title | The illegal as mundane | en_AU |
dc.type | Article | en_AU |
dc.subject.asrc | FoR::160807 - Sociological Methodology and Research Methods | en_AU |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/13639811.2019.1648006 | |
dc.type.pubtype | Post-print | en_AU |
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