The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development

Part 1: The illicit in urban and regional governance and development: a theoretical framework 1. Corrupt Places: The Illicit in the Governance and Development of Cities and Regions Francesco Chiodelli (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy), Tim Hall (University of Winchester, UK) Ray Hudson (University of Durham, UK), Stefano Moroni (Milan Polytechnic, Italy) 2. Filling Governance and Development Vacuums: A Role for Development Actors or Criminal Groups? Sasha Jesperson (Royal United Services Institute, London) 3. The Corruption of Politics or the Politics of Corruption? Reconsidering the role of organised crime in the geo-politics of corruption. Sue Penna (Lancaster University) Part 2: Organized crime, violence and illicit governance 4. Territorial structures of violence in the post-Soviet urban space Svetlana Stephenson (London Metropolitan University) 5. Securing Disputed Urban Spaces: Between Policing and Urban Warfare in Rio de Janeiro Antonio Sampaio (The International Institute for Strategic Studies, London) 6. Gangsters, guerillas and messiahs: the rise of a neo-patrimonial state in East Timor James Scambary (Australian National University, Canberra) 7. International drug trafficking in the Sahara Desert: from nomadic nationalism to land-grabbing Luca Raineri (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa) 8. Invisible journeys across India-Bangladesh Borders & Bubbles of Illicit Networks: stories of cross-border rural-urban migration and economic linkages Hosna J. Shewly and Md. Nadiruzzaman (University of Exeter) 9. The Sack of Palermo. A Combination of Local and Global Factors Vincenzo Scalia (University of Winchester) 10. "Mafia cements": criminal bonds and partnerships in the construction sector in Italy Salvatore Sberna (European University Institute, Florence) 11. Mafia Corruption in Northern Italy Elena Granata (Milan Polytechnic) Part 3: Corruption and grey urban governance 12. Corrupt Cities: The Illicit in Local Urban Development. The Spanish Case Monica Garcia Quesada (Free University of Brussels) and Fernando Jimenez (University of Murcia) 13. Unethical urban governance and emerging non-places: The case of Belgrade 7 Srdan Korac (Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade) and Dragana Corovic (University of Belgrade) 14. Loci Amoeni (It is not illegal, is self-organization!). Inquiring a thin boundary through the case of Rome, Italy Barbara Pizzo (La Sapienza, University of Rome) and Edoardo Altavila (Gran Sasso Science Institute, l'Aquila) 15. More than just marks on the map: Corrupt spaces and anti-corruption in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Grant W Walton (Australian National University, Canberra) 16. Who is Corrupt and where lies corruption: Thinking from Land use planning violations in Bangalore Jayaraj Sundaresan (University College London) 17. Corruption, crisis and regional policies: the project of Free Trade Zone in the Spanish metropolitan area of Valencia Jorge Ignacio Selfa Clemente (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) 18. Prohibition and Planning: Marijuana, Development, and the Upheaval of Governance in the Urban Seat of Rural California Michael Polson (City University of New York) 19. Building legitimacy through the spatial aesthetics of the illicit: extra-state urban actors in post-3.11 Japan Margrete Bjone Engelien, John Edom and Hannah Wood (The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen)