The Informal Post-Socialist Economy - Couverture souple

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9781138204041: The Informal Post-Socialist Economy
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ISBN 10 : 1138204048 ISBN 13 : 9781138204041
Editeur : Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

From smugglers to entrepreneurs, blue-collar workers and taxi drivers, this book deals with the multitude of characters engaged in informal economic practices in the former socialist regions. Going beyond a conception of informality as opposed to the formal sector, its authors demonstrate the fluid nature of informal transactions straddling the crossroads between illegal, illicit, socially acceptable and symbolically meaningful practices. Their argument is informed by a wide range of case studies, from Central Europe to the Baltics and Central Asia, each of which is constructed around a single informant. Each chapter narrates the story of a composite person or household that was carefully selected or constructed by an author with long-standing ethnographic research experience in the given field site.

Wide in geographical, empirical and theoretical scope, the book uses ethnographic narrative accounts of everyday life to make links between 'ordinary' meanings of informality. Challenging reductively economistic perspectives on cross-border trading, undeclared work and other informal activities, the authors illustrate the wide variety of interpretive meanings that people ascribe to such practices. Alongside 'getting by' and 'getting ahead' in recently marketised societies, these meanings relate to sociality, kinship-ties and solidarity, along with more surprising 'political' and moral reasonings.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jeremy Morris teaches at the University of Birmingham, UK

Abel Polese is a research fellow at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction of Dublin City University and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science and Governance of Tallinn University.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138204048
ISBN 13 
9781138204041
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Éditeur
Morris Jeremy
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780415854917: The Informal Post-Socialist Economy: Embedded Practices and Livelihoods

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0415854911 ISBN 13 :  9780415854917
Editeur : Routledge, 2013
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