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2017 OECD Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum | 2017 OECD Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum | ||
by Alena Ledeneva, University College London, UK | by Alena Ledeneva, University College London, UK | ||
The Global Informality Project invites you on a voyage of discovery, to explore societies’ open secrets, to comprehend unwritten rules and to uncover informal practices. Broadly defined as ‘ways of getting things done,’ these informal yet powerful practices tend to escape articulation in official discourse and policy-making. Our database at www.in-formality.com includes entries from 5 countries, 66 countries, 200+ researchers and is searchable by region, keyword or type of practice. The first Global Map of Informality is also available online. Do explore what works and how, where and why! | |||
The [[Global Informality Project]] invites you on a voyage of discovery, to explore societies’ open secrets, to comprehend unwritten rules and to uncover informal practices. Broadly defined as ‘ways of getting things done,’ these informal yet powerful practices tend to escape articulation in official discourse and policy-making. Our database at www.in-formality.com includes entries from 5 countries, 66 countries, 200+ researchers and is searchable by region, keyword or type of practice. The first Global Map of Informality is also available online. Do explore what works and how, where and why! | |||
Informal practices are not the same as corrupt practices although there may be some overlap. The informal practices revealed in this book include emotion-driven exchanges of gifts or favours and tributes for services, interest-driven know-how (from informal welfare to informal employment and entrepreneurship, often not seen or appreciated as expertise), identity- or value-based 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. | Informal practices are not the same as corrupt practices although there may be some overlap. The informal practices revealed in this book include emotion-driven exchanges of gifts or favours and tributes for services, interest-driven know-how (from informal welfare to informal employment and entrepreneurship, often not seen or appreciated as expertise), identity- or value-based 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. | ||
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What has been achieved in the Global Informality Project was only possible thanks to a remarkable collaboration of scholars across disciplines and area studies: sociologists, anthropologists, economists, historians and political scientists. Without their combined scholarly commitment, the ambition to portray at least a fragment of the world’s social and cultural complexity would never have materialised. The majority of entries are based on original ethnographic research and materials collected through fieldwork conducted worldwide, as well as secondary data analysis, media research through computer-aided technologies and human-assisted analysis. Collectively, it has taken the authors of this project over a thousand years of research to present this ‘informal worldview,’ itself only a beginning to our understanding of the ambivalent patterns of social and cultural complexity. The main outcome of all our efforts is, to date, the realisation that complexity can be approached only through mastering paradoxes; articulating the unspoken and visualising the invisible; finding patterns in the amorphous and formalising the informal; finding similarities in differences and differences in similarities; comparing the incomparable and doing the undoable. | What has been achieved in the Global Informality Project was only possible thanks to a remarkable collaboration of scholars across disciplines and area studies: sociologists, anthropologists, economists, historians and political scientists. Without their combined scholarly commitment, the ambition to portray at least a fragment of the world’s social and cultural complexity would never have materialised. The majority of entries are based on original ethnographic research and materials collected through fieldwork conducted worldwide, as well as secondary data analysis, media research through computer-aided technologies and human-assisted analysis. Collectively, it has taken the authors of this project over a thousand years of research to present this ‘informal worldview,’ itself only a beginning to our understanding of the ambivalent patterns of social and cultural complexity. The main outcome of all our efforts is, to date, the realisation that complexity can be approached only through mastering paradoxes; articulating the unspoken and visualising the invisible; finding patterns in the amorphous and formalising the informal; finding similarities in differences and differences in similarities; comparing the incomparable and doing the undoable. | ||
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