Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South: The human consequences of piracy in China and Brazil

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on the text
1. Introduction: the tale of a Chinese Santa
	From China to Brazil, via Paraguay
	The intellectual property discourse
	State mediations
	In search of Santa Claus
	The structure of the book
	Note
	References
PART I: South America
	2. Bargaining and selling: regimes of value in a market before the war against piracy
		The roots of an unwanted market
		Life and value in stone
		Currencies of exchange
		I am a slave to myself
		Networked bodies
		Bargaining kinship
		Paraguay will end! Crises and arrangements
		References
	3. Traveling and smuggling: intellectual property discourse reaches Brazil
		From marginalization to criminalization
		The clean self
		Local notions on intellectual property
		Smuggling roads
		Embodying power: authorities
		Further developments
		Notes
		References
	4. Migrating and importing: the Chinese community in a time of change
		From “Made in Taiwan” to “Made in China” to piracy
		Self-orientalizing projects amid interethnic friction
		Family in a time of change
		Final remarks
		Notes
		References
PART II: China
	5. Enterprising and producing: leisure and sacrifice in the production system
		Leisure and pleasure: emerging subjectivities in the world’s factory
		The leisure self
		The others’ sacrifice
		Final remarks
		Notes
		References
	6. Protecting and dreaming: state interests, elite alliances, and laissez-faire
		Negotiating legal discourses
		Elite alliances, networks, and protection
		A discursive wall for black cats
		The China Dream: final remarks
		References
Conclusion: ending and changing routes
	Follow-up: a final ethnographic story
	Unpredictable futures
	Note
	References
Index