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<span style="font-size:180%; line-height:110%">‛''This book tells a story of human cooperation. It is not the narrative you’ll find in books teaching you how to solve problems. It is an assemblage of something much more endemic, fundamentally human, and much more pervasive than we tend to think of informality. It involves money and power, but also the alternative currencies of gaining advantage or [[gaming the system]].’ Bruce Schneier, author of A Hacker's Mind</span>
<span style="font-size:100%; line-height:110%">‛''This book tells a story of human cooperation. It is not the narrative you’ll find in books teaching you how to solve problems. It is an assemblage of something much more endemic, fundamentally human, and much more pervasive than we tend to think of informality. It involves money and power, but also the alternative currencies of gaining advantage or gaming of the system.''’</span><br>
 
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<span style="font-size:150%; line-height:110%"><b>‘Alena Ledeneva’s</b> latest database of rule bending is a goldmine for documentary makers and storytellers. Entries from 70 countries, covering a human lifespan from Chinese “anchor babies” to funeral feasts in Azerbaijan, offer remarkable insights into the way the world really works.’ Lucy Ash, journalist.''</span>
<span style="font-size:100%; line-height:110%">‛''Alena Ledeneva’s latest database of rule bending is a goldmine for documentary makers and storytellers. Entries from 70 countries, covering a human lifespan from Chinese “anchor babies” to funeral feasts in Azerbaijan, offer remarkable insights into the way the world really works.''’</span><br>''
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The volume takes a reader on a ‘biographical’ journey through elusive, taken-for-granted or banal ways of getting things done from over 70 countries and world regions. It offers innovative understanding of the significance of fringes, and challenges the assumption that informality is associated exclusively with poverty, underdevelopment, the Global South, oppressive regimes or the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It also maps the patterns of informality around the globe; identifies specific informal practices in a context-sensitive way; and documents their ambivalent impact on people engaged in problem-solving, on societies in which these problems arise, and on humanity overall.
The volume takes a reader on a ‘biographical’ journey through elusive, taken-for-granted or banal ways of getting things done from over 70 countries and world regions. It offers innovative understanding of the significance of fringes, and challenges the assumption that informality is associated exclusively with poverty, underdevelopment, the Global South, oppressive regimes or the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It also maps the patterns of informality around the globe; identifies specific informal practices in a context-sensitive way; and documents their ambivalent impact on people engaged in problem-solving, on societies in which these problems arise, and on humanity overall.
From February 2024 the volume 3 Encyclopaedia travelled the world . For the past [[events]] see the [[Global Book Launch Events|global book tour]].
From February 2024 the [[Volume 3 Book Launch Events|volume 3 ]]Encyclopaedia travelled the world . For the past [[events]] see the [[Global Book Launch Events for Volumes 1-2|global book tour]].
 
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<span style="font-size:180%; line-height:110%">‛''This is a monumental achievement – an indispensable reference for anyone in the social sciences interested in informality.''’</span><br>
<span style="font-size:100%; line-height:110%">‛''This is a monumental achievement – an indispensable reference for anyone in the social sciences interested in informality.''’</span><br>
Martin Holbraad, Professor of Social Anthropology at UCL and editor-in-chief of Social Analysis
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This unique collection 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 Global Encyclopaedia of Informality contains over 200 entries. From March 2018 to April 2019 the Encyclopaedia travelled the world on a [[Global Book Launch Events|global book tour]].
This unique collection 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 Global Encyclopaedia of Informality contains over 200 entries. From March 2018 to April 2019 the Encyclopaedia travelled the world on a [[Global Book Launch Events for Volumes 1-2|global book tour]].
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==Short introduction to the volumes==
==Short introduction to the volumes==
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''The Choice'', April 2019: 939.
''The Choice'', April 2019: 939.


==About the FRINGE Centre for the Study of Social and Cultural Complexity==
==UCL FRINGE Series==
 
The UCL press [https://uclpress.co.uk/book-series/fringe/ FRINGE series] is supported by the FRINGE Centre, founded by Alena Ledeneva and Peter Zusi. The FRINGE Centre explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena. A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together scholars from the humanities and social sciences, FRINGE series examines how seemingly opposed notions such as centrality and marginality, and clarity and ambiguity, can shift and converge when embedded in everyday practices. Our interest lies in the hidden complexity of all embedded practices, taken-for-granted and otherwise invisible subjects. Illuminating the 'fringe' thus puts the 'centre' in a new light.
The [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/ucl-school-slavonic-east-european-studies-ssees FRINGE Centre] explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena. A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together scholars from the humanities and social sciences, FRINGE examines how seemingly opposed notions such as centrality and marginality, and clarity and ambiguity, can shift and converge when embedded in everyday practices. Our interest lies in the hidden complexity of all embedded practices, taken-for-granted and otherwise invisible subjects. Illuminating the 'fringe' thus puts the 'centre' in a new light.
 
The FRINGE Centre publishes the [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/fringe-centre/publications FRINGE series] with [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press UCL Press].
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