Thinking through the relationships between legal and illegal activities and economies: Spaces, flows and pathways.

Hudson, R.

Abstract

My purpose in this article is selectively to draw upon and use the available evidence to summarise the various forms/types of illegal activities, their relationships to the formal legal economy, their various spatialities and geographies, and to identify some of the theoretical and conceptual issues raised by recognising the absence of consideration of the illegal/illicit in the economic geography literature and to consider in a preliminary way some of the implications of this lacuna. This will inevitably be a partial and preliminary exercise, not least because of the fragmented nature of the available empirical evidence on illegal economies.

Citation

Hudson, R. (2014). Thinking through the relationships between legal and illegal activities and economies: Spaces, flows and pathways. Journal of Economic Geography, 14(4), 775-795. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbt017

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 3, 2013
• Publication Date: 2014-07
• Deposit Date: Aug 29, 2013
• Journal: Journal of Economic Geography
• Print ISSN: 1468-2702
• Electronic ISSN: 1468-2710
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 775-795
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbt017
• Keywords: Illegal activities, Relations between legal and illegal economies, Forms of regulation, Uneven development, Neoliberal globalisation.