Centre for South Asian Studies

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This talk follows the publication – free and open access – of an edited collection entitled The Wild East. https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/109084 . In this talk the implications of eleven case studies of criminal economies, five by economists and six by anthropologists, will be marshalled into four kinds of reflection: 1. The nexus of business-politics-crime; 2. The meaning and significance of “wildness”; 3. Contributions of political-economic and of anthropological studies to macro-level models of the criminalisation of politics and the politicisation of crime; 4. The question of what is to be done.