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'''Discover the world’s open secrets, unwritten rules and hidden practices''' | |||
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The '''<nowiki>Global Informality Project</nowiki>''' is an interdisciplinary research project led by UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. It provides the '''[[Explore the Online Encyclopaedia|first multimedia online resource]]''' that explores informal practices and structures from a global perspective. Through its comparative and ethnographic investigations, the encyclopaedia traces the existence of multiple moralities, which account for the resilience of informal practices, and investigates their legitimacy and institutional arrangements as well as the cultural and historical contexts of informality. This online resource is truly international: it includes entries from '''5''' continents, over '''75''' countries and over '''250''' researchers. | |||
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* enables context-rich analysis and comparison of practices from all over the world; | |||
*enables | * connects those interested in informality; | ||
* serves as a teaching and learning tool for the academic community, policy makers, businesses and travellers; | |||
* set up a platform for the crowdsourcing, cataloguing, and monitoring of informal practises across the globe. | |||
[[Published Volumes and Analysis|Two printed volumes]], published in 2018 in the FRINGE series by UCL Press, explore the boundaries between informality and corruption, including the ambivalence of informal practices and their major implications for anti-corruption policy. We continue to assemble practices for our [[Explore the Online Encyclopaedia|online encyclopaedia]], with a purpose of developing a [[Joining the Global Informality Project|third volume of the Encyclopaedia]] in the near future. | |||
Our bi-annual newsletters are packed with [[Related Publications|expertise]], [[Related Projects|calls for papers]] and other news. | |||
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==Contact us== | |||
'''Editor-in-Chief:''' Prof Alena Ledeneva (contact [https://www.alenaledeneva.com/ here]) | |||
[ | '''Project Manager and Editor:''' Gian Marco Moisé ([mailto:informality2014@gmail.com informality2014@gmail.com]) | ||
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==Project progress== | |||
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File:Volume3chart.png|thumb|400px|thumb|left|'''Volume 3''' | |||
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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]. | 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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==Acknowledgements== | ==Acknowledgements== | ||
Our start-up small research grant was given by the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies | Our start-up small research grant was given by the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (5K). The book benefitted from Alena Ledeneva’s fellowship at the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies, with the financial support of the French State managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, programme ‘Investissements d’avenir’ (ANR- 11- LABX- 0027- 01 Labex RFIEA+). The website and editorial activities were mainly supported by the dissemination funding of the European Union Seventh Framework Research Project, ‘Anti- corruption Policies Revisited: Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption’ (ANTICORRP, 2012– 17, Grant agreement No: 290529). We are grateful to our partners in the European Union’s Horizon 2020 project on ‘Closing the Gap Between Formal and Informal Institutions in the Balkans’ (INFORM, Grant agreement No. 693537). The UCL European Institute has helped with publication cost and dissemination and has been a supporter of the UCL-SSEES-IAS Centre for the Study of Social and Cultural Complexity (FRINGE). The cooperation with Digital Humanities was funded by the UCL Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects (CHIRP) in 2014– 16 (5K). Thank you to postgraduate students from the Digital Humanities programme – Yang Liu, Adriana Bastarrachea Santez, Yuan Gao, Orla Delaney, Binxia Xu, Xi Cao and Oksana Walsh – for helping keep the online database functioning and accessible. Thank you to Yvonne Preda and Charlotte Solomou for their help in retrieving new contributors, editing entries, and work on the website. The FRINGE Centre student volunteers Ouxiang Ji and Benny Mao have been superefficient in putting together the mammoth file for the third volume of the Encyclopaedia. | ||
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<small>[[Opportunities Archive|Archive of past opportunities related to the Global Informality Project]]</small> | |||
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Latest revision as of 11:25, 1 September 2023
Discover the world’s open secrets, unwritten rules and hidden practices
The Global Informality Project is an interdisciplinary research project led by UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. It provides the first multimedia online resource that explores informal practices and structures from a global perspective. Through its comparative and ethnographic investigations, the encyclopaedia traces the existence of multiple moralities, which account for the resilience of informal practices, and investigates their legitimacy and institutional arrangements as well as the cultural and historical contexts of informality. This online resource is truly international: it includes entries from 5 continents, over 75 countries and over 250 researchers.
- enables context-rich analysis and comparison of practices from all over the world;
- connects those interested in informality;
- serves as a teaching and learning tool for the academic community, policy makers, businesses and travellers;
- set up a platform for the crowdsourcing, cataloguing, and monitoring of informal practises across the globe.
Two printed volumes, published in 2018 in the FRINGE series by UCL Press, explore the boundaries between informality and corruption, including the ambivalence of informal practices and their major implications for anti-corruption policy. We continue to assemble practices for our online encyclopaedia, with a purpose of developing a third volume of the Encyclopaedia in the near future.
Our bi-annual newsletters are packed with expertise, calls for papers and other news.
Contact us
Editor-in-Chief: Prof Alena Ledeneva (contact here)
Project Manager and Editor: Gian Marco Moisé (informality2014@gmail.com)
Project progress
Volume 1 and 2
Volume 3
About the FRINGE Centre for the Study of Social and Cultural Complexity
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 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 FRINGE series with UCL Press.
Acknowledgements
Our start-up small research grant was given by the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (5K). The book benefitted from Alena Ledeneva’s fellowship at the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies, with the financial support of the French State managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, programme ‘Investissements d’avenir’ (ANR- 11- LABX- 0027- 01 Labex RFIEA+). The website and editorial activities were mainly supported by the dissemination funding of the European Union Seventh Framework Research Project, ‘Anti- corruption Policies Revisited: Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption’ (ANTICORRP, 2012– 17, Grant agreement No: 290529). We are grateful to our partners in the European Union’s Horizon 2020 project on ‘Closing the Gap Between Formal and Informal Institutions in the Balkans’ (INFORM, Grant agreement No. 693537). The UCL European Institute has helped with publication cost and dissemination and has been a supporter of the UCL-SSEES-IAS Centre for the Study of Social and Cultural Complexity (FRINGE). The cooperation with Digital Humanities was funded by the UCL Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects (CHIRP) in 2014– 16 (5K). Thank you to postgraduate students from the Digital Humanities programme – Yang Liu, Adriana Bastarrachea Santez, Yuan Gao, Orla Delaney, Binxia Xu, Xi Cao and Oksana Walsh – for helping keep the online database functioning and accessible. Thank you to Yvonne Preda and Charlotte Solomou for their help in retrieving new contributors, editing entries, and work on the website. The FRINGE Centre student volunteers Ouxiang Ji and Benny Mao have been superefficient in putting together the mammoth file for the third volume of the Encyclopaedia.