How are borders made porous? In Turkey's Kurdish borderlands, smugglers are not just agents who operate under cover of night, but city‐based traders whose legal practices create a third space in between legality and illegality. Kurdish oil traders accused of smuggling work closely with lawyers to perform what I call probabilistic borderwork. This is a deliberate counterstate political strategy that uses scientific uncertainty to challenge smuggling charges, achieve nonillegality, and legally disrupt the state's border enforcement. Going beyond existing categories of law and politics, probabilistic borderwork is not a rights‐claiming political‐legal action. Rather, it is a form of techno‐legal political agency involving collaboration between otherwise disparate professional groups. [oil, borders, law, techno‐politics, the Kurds, Turkey]

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概率边界工作

边框如何多孔化？在土耳其的库尔德边境地区，走私者不仅是在夜幕下活动的特工，而且是城市商人，其法律行为在合法与非法之间创造了第三空间。库尔德石油交易商被指控与律师紧密合作进行走私活动，以执行我所说的概率边界工作。这是一种蓄意的反政府政治策略，它利用科学的不确定性来挑战走私指控，实现非非法性并在法律上破坏该州的边境执法。超越现有法律和政治范畴，概率边界工作并不是要求权利的政治法律行动。相反，它是技术法律政治机构的一种形式，涉及原本分散的专业团体之间的合作。[油，边界，法律，技术政治，库尔德人，土耳其]