TY  - BOOK
ED  - Ledeneva, Alena
AB  - Alena Ledeneva invites you on a voyage of discovery, to explore society’s open secrets, unwritten rules and know-how practices. Broadly defined as ‘ways of getting things done’, these invisible yet powerful informal practices tend to escape articulation in official discourse. They include emotion-driven exchanges of gifts or favours and tributes for services, interest-driven know-how (from informal welfare to informal employment and entrepreneurship), identity-driven practices of solidarity, and power-driven forms of co-optation and control. The paradox, or not, of the invisibility of these informal practices is their ubiquity. Expertly practised by insiders but often hidden from outsiders, informal practices are, as this book shows, deeply rooted all over the world, yet underestimated in policy. Entries from the five continents presented in this volume are samples of the truly global and ever-growing collection, made possible by a remarkable collaboration of over 200 scholars across disciplines and area studies. By mapping the grey zones, blurred boundaries, types of ambivalence and contexts of complexity, this book creates the first Global Map of Informality. The accompanying database is searchable by region, keyword or type of practice, so do explore what works, how, where and why!
DO  - 10.14324/111.9781911307907
ID  - OAPEN ID: 642570
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030816174
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30815
KW  - global informality
KW  - informality
KW  - informal practices
KW  - Bribery
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHV Political structures: democracy
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHX Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations::JPSL Geopolitics
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement::JPWG Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action
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LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29260
PB  - UCL Press
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9781911307884
SN  - 9781911307891
SN  - 9781911307877
SN  - 9781911307860
TI  - The Global Encyclopaedia of informality : Understanding Social and Cultural Complexity, Volume 1
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