A transnational factory can sit inside a state yet evade its law

Evidence

But there are spatial limits to how far he can venture in his infiltrations and exposes. In a masterstroke, Sinha’s deploys Animal’s physical form as not just a consequence but a condensation of occluded transnational economic relations. His picaro is literally outlandish, his twisted body the physical manifestation of extraterritorial, offshore capitalist practices. The novel tracks the economics of a transnational regime of contamination by posing questions about the limits to bodily integrity, in both the individual and the nation-state. The Kampani’s factory is located yet dislocated, inside India geographically yet elusively afloat, outside the reach (or at least the application) of Indian law. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 153

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates ‘extra-territoriality’: geographic presence with legal dislocation — how extraction escapes accountability.
• ADDENDUM: Serves the law/institutions strand of the polyad — jurisdictional escape as a structural feature of transnational extraction.
• XREF: connects to: Workers briefly ran factories autonomously and the state could not intervene — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 187; Workers’ factory occupations in Milan operated as self-governing territories without police presence; The state cannot claim a monopoly over law (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Trading floors sit inside firms yet operate as separately governed enclaves #exemplifies (0.95) — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 39
• Workers’ factory occupations in Milan operated as self-governing territories without police presence #exemplifies (0.90)
• Workers briefly ran factories autonomously and the state could not intervene #exemplifies (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 187
• The state cannot claim a monopoly over law #expands (0.80)
• The state could not suppress the 1920 factory occupations by force #corroborates (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 187