Logistics and Power in Illegitimate Markets

Wed Oct 29 2025 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm UTC+00:00

IAS Common Ground, G11, South Wing | London

UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)
Publisher/HostUCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)
Logistics and Power in Illegitimate Markets UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is delighted to welcome Susan Zieger to give this seminar.
About this Event

Telling supply chain stories about illegal drugs and counterfeit goods, I explain how the enhanced logistics of e-commerce has expanded and diversified organized crime, incorporating it within the so-called legitimate economy. As the freest mode of trade, illegal logistics reveal the social and cultural consequences of two centuries of laissez-faire economics and fifty years of neoliberal trade policies.

Followed by a drinks reception. All welcome but please register to attend.

The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is a world-leading centre for critical interdisciplinary research into the past, present, and future of capitalism. It brings together UCL faculty and students studying how markets, finance and economic institutions shape our everyday life, structure societies’ capacity to change, and are contested and remade across time and space.


About the Speaker
Susan Zieger

Professor of English at University of California in Riverside

Susan Zieger writes about the modern history and literature of consumerism. Her first two books explored addiction and media immersion in the nineteenth century.

More about Susan Zieger

Event Venue

IAS Common Ground, G11, South Wing, Gower Street, London, United Kingdom

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