GWZ, 2. Floor, Room: 4.216

Language: English

This presentation analyzes the connected history of transnational crime and policing networks in the South American Atlantic region between the 1890’s and 1940’s, with a focus on currency counterfeiting. I follow the trajectories of two cross-border counterfeiters: a French photographer who emigrated to Argentina in the late nineteenth century and a Portuguese photographer who emigrated to Brazil at the beginning of the twentieth century. Their trajectories are only a fragment of a wider web of criminal and police circulations in the Atlantic world.