This site contains links to students' web essays on the theme of informality.
You are what you eat: How food can explain why socialism failed in Poland
By Ania Milligan, UCL Anthropology alumna
In her interactive essay, prepared for the module The Anthropology of Socialist and Post-Socialist Societies convened by Ruth Mandel, Ania Milligan proposes that the food practices in socialist and post-socialist Poland can elucidate ‘why the Russian socialist occupation was ultimately unsuccessful’.
Coursework for Causes, Consequences and Control: Corruption and Governance
A selection of web essays prepared in academic years 2018/19 and 2019/20 for the UCL SSEES course SEES0081: Causes, Consequences and Control: Corruption and Governance. Since the essays were marked assignments, the authors of the essays are anonymous.