1. Studying smuggling Part I: Methods and approaches: 2. Localising smuggling; 3. Smuggling ideologies: Theory and reality in African clandestine economies; 4. Lorries and ledgers: Describing and mapping smuggling in the field; 5. Quantifying missing and hidden trade: An economic perspective; 6. Research in dangerous fields: Ethics, morals, and practices in the study of smuggling;
Part II: Borderlands and their people: 7. Making borders, closing frontiers and identifying smuggling: Comparative histories; 8. Borderlands, frontiers, and borders: Changing meanings and the intersection with smuggling practices; 9. Trading spaces: Afghan borderland brokers and the transformation of the margins; 10. Scales of grey: The complex geography of transnational cross-border trade in the African Great Lakes region; 11. Smuggling as a legitimate activity?: The OPEC Boys as social bandits in Northern Uganda; 12. Tall tales and borderline cases: Narratives as meaningful contraband;13. Gender and smuggling
Part III: Smuggling goods: 14. Cocaine smuggling: Between geopolitics and domestic power struggles; 15. Sharing the load: The distributive nature of the opium trade in, and from, Afghanistan; 16. Arms trafficking; 17. Reconciling competing policies for combatting wildlife trafficking and preventing zoonotic pandemics; 18. Cigarette smuggling: Trends, taxes and big tobacco; 19. Theft and smuggling of petroleum products; 20. Old routes, new rules: Smuggling rice in the porous borders of the Sulu, Celebes, and South China Sea; 21. The intersections of smuggling flows
Part IV: Smuggling and mobility: 22. Humanitarian smuggling in a time of restricting and criminalizing mobility; 23. Migrant smuggling and the social organisation of cross-border mobility; 24. Human smuggling, gender and labour circulation in the Global South; 25. Human smuggling in the time of COVID-19: Lessons from a pandemic
Part V: Smuggling and conflict: 26. The illicit trade and conflict connection: Insight from US history; 27. Smuggling, survival, and civil war economies; 28. Checkpost chess: Exploring the relationship between insurgents and illicit trade; 29. Rebels, smugglers and (the pitfalls of) economic pacification
Part VI: Addressing smuggling: 30. Blue frontiers: In pursuit of smugglers at sea; 31. Communities and crime wars: Adaptation and resilience; 32. The "war on smugglers" and the expansion of the border apparatus