List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: contraband as culture, culture as contraband Jennifer Cearns & Charles Beach 1 'Born in this abominable sin': contraband trade in colonial Spanish America Joseph M.H. Clark 2 'Yo siempre quis ser bichote' en 'P FKN R': Bad Bunny and the representation of Puerto Rican narco-culture in gore capitalism era Luis Javier Cintrón-Gutiérrez 3 Entitled to contraband: citizenship and sovereignty in an Indigenous borderland (Guyana-Venezuela) Olivier Allard 4 Ranching, rustling, and wage-work: navigating the entangled smuggling economy in northern Paraguay Cari Tusing 5 Emprendedores forzados: Ex-smugglers of Venezuelan petrol turned unwilling entrepreneurs in the Colombian border-city of Cúcuta Charles Beach 6 Abundance as an ethic: emergency food ingress and moral concern in Venezuela Eva van Roekel 7 Crush your pills: smuggling medication into Rio de Janeiro's prisons David C. Thompson 8 Intermediaries in the Haitian wout: the dynamics of (im)mobilities in the Americas Mélanie Montinard 9 State policies and contraband economies in the Bolivia-Argentina borderlands: grappling with subordinate financialization Charles Dolph 10 'Los piratas del Caribe': disrupting capitalism through digital piracy in Cuba Jennifer Cearns 11 Counterfeit: disruption and creation in the files of transnational adoptions from Guatemala to Europe Silvia Posocco & Sophie Villérs 12 Conclusion: beyond contraband Rebecca Galemba Index.