LEADER 03207 am 22005653u 450 001 9910252738303321 005 20201022212801.0 024 7 $a10.14324/111.9781911307907 035 $a(CKB)4100000001653862 035 $a(OAPEN)642570 035 $a(NjHacI)994100000001653862 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001653862 100 $a20190111d|||| uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGlobal Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 1: Towards Understanding of Social and Cultural Complexity 210 $cUCL Press$d2018 215 $a1 online resource (464) 225 0 $aFringe 311 $a1-911307-89-4 311 $a1-911307-90-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aAlena 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! 606 $aPolitical science & theory$2bicssc 606 $aPolitical ideologies$2bicssc 606 $aPolitical structure & processes$2bicssc 606 $aPolitical structures: democracy$2bicssc 606 $aPolitical structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship$2bicssc 606 $aGeopolitics$2bicssc 606 $aPolitical activism$2bicssc 606 $aPolitical subversion$2bicssc 615 7$aPolitical science & theory 615 7$aPolitical ideologies 615 7$aPolitical structure & processes 615 7$aPolitical structures: democracy 615 7$aPolitical structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship 615 7$aGeopolitics 615 7$aPolitical activism 615 7$aPolitical subversion 676 $a306 702 $aLedeneva$b Alena V.$f1964- 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910252738303321 996 $aGlobal Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 1: Towards Understanding of Social and Cultural Complexity$91991620 997 $aUNINA