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Alena Ledeneva,
Alena Ledeneva,
Professor of Politics and Society,
Professor of Politics and Society,
University College London
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'''Newsletter No 12 - 17 January 2018'''
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'''Dear Author,'''
'''CONGRATULATIONS!'''<br>
'''The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality is out in paper and online. It is available in open access for a free download at:'''<br>
'''http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/global-encyclopedia-of-informality-i'''<br>
'''https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/global-encyclopaedia-of-informality-ii'''<br>
'''Congratulations to all of us!'''<br>
'''Please make sure you join at least one of the book launch events: the first one is in San-Diego, CA! (see details below)'''
'''PURCHASE'''<br>
If you would like to purchase a discounted copy (a third OFF the retail price) they should send the
following information to uclpresspublishing@ucl.ac.uk, and the UCL distributor will invoice you.<br>
Name of book:<br>
Format: Paperback/Hardback<br>
Name:<br>
Delivery address:<br>
Email:<br>
Contact tel #<br>
Invoice name/address/email (if not the same as above).
'''PUBLICITY'''<br>
Please add the FREE download link to your email signature and to your profile on you university
website; social media (Facebook; Twitter; Linkedin); and various research gates (Academia;
ResearchGate; SSRN). Please also use the word of mouth and inform your colleagues, students and
friends about the publication. Ask them to twit and write amazon reviews.
'''LONDON LAUNCH'''<br>
Please come to the book launch event on '''22 March 2018 in London''', hosted by the UCL
Global Engagement Fund and FRINGE Centre at the UCL Institute of the Advanced Studies,
from 2.30 to 7.30pm. We plan to start promptly at 2.30pm with a workshop with a working
title ‘So what?’ Given that a lot of authors and guests have confirmed their participation, we
can organize several group discussions for an hour, followed by a joint roundtable and a
drinks party. The proposed themes for the discussion of the implications of the Global
Informality Project are:
* Globalizing knowledge
* Leaning commons
* Building on resistance capacity
* Power distance and closed access societies
* Theory and practice of ambivalence
* Complexity and pattern recognition
* Superseding dichotomies
* Cyber-informality
* Informal governance
* Area studies without borders
* Cross-disciplinary analysis
* Curious incidents in the dataset (what does not fit?)
If you can be in London on this date, please let me know which group you would like to be
in.
'''HOTEL'''<br>
We cannot pay the flight but we will be able to get a night at a hotel for you. Please me
know if you need a hotel reservation in advance. We can only reimburse to the UCL partner
hotels, so it is probably easier to book through the UCL.
 
<p>'''GLOBAL LAUNCH:'''<br>
Thank you to all authors who has volunteered already to organize book launch events in
their universities and other professional platforms and associations. In alphabetical order:
<blockquote>'''Bazel, Switzerland (Lucy Koelcin and Claudia Baez)<br>Belgrade, Serbia (Ivana Spasic and Predrag Cveticanin)<br>Boston, USA (Sheila Puffer)<br>Lund, Sweden (Rustam Urenboyev)<br>Montreal, Canada (Tina Hilgers)<br>Moscow, Russia (Svetlana Barsukova)<br>New York, NY (Sven Horak, Jessica Allina-Pisano)<br>Paris, France (Florence Weber)<br>Riga, Latvia (Klāvs Sedlenieks)<br>San Diego State University (David Jancsics)<br>Skopje, Macedonia (FYROM) (Misha Popovikj)<br>Tokyo, Japan (Yoshimichi Sato)<br>Washington DC, USA (Sergei Samoylenko and Marlene Laruelle)<br>Tampa Florida, USA (Golfo Alexopolous)'''</blockquote>
We need more events around the world. Please let me know if you would like to organize an event at your university or at a professional association meeting. Any format is welcome, from a seminar with students and colleagues to a small informal celebration. UCL Press will send you leaflets, paper copies and I will be happy to join in by Skype. If you could send us a photo of the event or short video, that would be great!</p>
'''OUR FIRST LAUNCH IN SAN-DIEGO, CA ON 9 MARCH 2018?'''<br>
David Jancsics will organize a book launch event at San Diego State University’s School
of Public Affairs (which celebrates its 50th anniversary on March 9th 2018 and the book
launch will be part of a big celebration). He invites colleagues to join him:<br>
“I would like to invite authors of the Encyclopaedia to come and participate in a
roundtable in San Diego on March 9th. We would be very happy to host authors of
Mexican, Latin American, Middle Eastern or North American entries since our faculty
research is related to these regions but other authors are also welcome. Participants
should come at their own expense but hotel and food will be covered by the School of
Public Affairs. If you are interested in participating please let me know as soon as
possible at:  djancsics@sdsu.edu" <br>
If you are on the West Coast or can get there, please contact David and don’t forget to send
us a short video from the big event.
'''OUR LAST LAUNCH AT ASEEES IN BOSTON 6-9 December 2018'''<br>
Anyone plans to be at the 50 th annual ASEEES convention in Boston this year? Please
contact Elena Denisova-Schmidt at elena.denisova-schmidt@unisg.ch
'''PLEASE CHALLENGE ‘OUR FIRST’ AND ‘OUR LAST’ AND SUGGEST MORE EVENTS
INBETWEEN!'''
More soon,
Alena Ledeneva<br>
Professor of Politics and Society<br>
University College London<br>
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'''Newsletter No 11 - 20 December 2017'''
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'''Dear Author,'''
'''I am writing to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2018 from the Global Informality Project! It has been a pleasure to work with you over the years and our first printed output – Global Encyclopaedia of Informality – is under way.'''
'''GOOD NEWS!'''
* It looks like our publication date is going to be 15 January 2018 and the online version of the book will be free and downloadable from the UCL Press website.
* ISBN numbers for Volume I - 9781911307884; for Volume II - 9781787351912.
* It is already possible for libraries to order the book on Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=global+Encyclopaedia+of+Informality
* Paper copies will be available from the UCL Press.
* We plan a book launch event on 22 March 2018 in London, hosted by the UCL Global Engagement Fund and FRINGE Centre at the UCL Institute of the Advanced Studies. Please let me know if you can be in London on this date. We cannot pay the flight but we will be able to get a night at a hotel for you!
'''GLOBAL BOOK LAUNCH!''' Given that our project embraces five continents and 66 countries,
let us make it truly global. It would be great to launch the books in as many countries as
possible. If you have written an entry, please organize a book launch event at your
university or organization for colleagues, students and guests. Thank you for all those who
volunteered to host a book launch - we will have one in New York, Washington, Paris, Tokyo,
Montreal and Moscow. Please let me know if you would like to host an event – we will send
you leaflets, paper copies and assist in every way.<br>
I also look forward to hearing from you if you have some ideas for marketing – which journal
we should have a review, where we could publicize our publication.<br>
For the moment, please include the publication in your email signature; in your research
gate or academia.edu profile, on your university website. Once I receive a link to the UCL
Press website where the Encyclopaedia can be freely downloaded, I will send it to you.
In the meantime, enjoy the winter break and stay in touch.
Best wishes,
'''Alena Ledeneva'''<br>
Professor of Politics and Society<br>
University College London
University College London
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