This volume explores the continuous line from informal and unrecorded practices all the way up to illegal and criminal practices, performed and reproduced by both individuals and organisations. The authors classify them as alternative, subversive forms of governance performed by marginal (and often invisible) peripheral actors. The volume studies how the informal and the extra-legal unfold transnationally and, in particular, how and why they have been/are being progressively criminalized and integrated into the construction of global and local dangerhoods; how the above-mentioned phenomena are embedded into a post-liberal security order; and whether they shape new states of exception and generate moral panic whose ultimate function is regulatory, disciplinary and one of crafting practices of political ordering.

Abel Polese is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction of Dublin City University, Ireland. 
Alessandra Russo is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France.
Francesco Strazzari is Associate Professor of International Relations at the SantAnna School of Advanced Studies, Italy, and Adjunct Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway. 

1. Introduction: The good, the bad and the ugly: transnational perspectives on the extra-legal field.- 2. Conversations bamakoises in time of crisis: criminalisation of everyday life and state formation in Mali.- 3. The Criminalisation of Informal Practices in the Danube Delta: how and why.- 4. Use of language in blurring the lines between legality and illegality.- 5. Mothers as pot legalizers: From illegality to morality in medical use of cannabis in Latin America.- 6. Negotiated Prohibition: The Social Organisation of Illegal Gambling in Ukraine.- 7. Coping mechanisms of Ukrainian patients: bribes, gifts, donations, and connections.- 8. Collateral Damage of Global Governance on the Local Level - An analysis of fragmented international regimes in the Brazilian Amazon.- 9. Informality and the Revolutionary state in Russia.- 10. Informality, Criminality, and Local Autonomy in the Balkans: A Geographic-Based Analysis of State Confines.- 11. Stealing from the state is not stealing really, it is a national sport - A study of informal economic practices and low-level corruption in Hungary.- 12. Cross-border smuggling in north Niger: the morality of the informal and the construction of a hybrid order.- 13. Informality and state-society relations in post-2011 Tunisia.- 14. If It All Went Up In Smoke. Undercover Communities and Cannabis Regulation in the Emerald Triangle.- 15. The First Moldovan Students in Romania (19901991): Informal Traders or Agents of Change?.- 16. Nothing to Lose: The Power of Subtle Forms of Resistance in an Immigration Detention Centre.- 17. Out of the rubble: affective infrapolitics in Bangkok.- 18. Informal governance on cryptomarkets for illicit drugs.