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* '''Download [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/global-encyclopedia-of-informality-i Volume 1:]''' Part 1: Redistribution (substantive ambivalence) and Part 2: Solidarity (normative ambivalence) | |||
* '''Download [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/global-encyclopaedia-of-informality-ii Volume 2:]''' Part 3: Market (functional ambivalence) and Part 4: Domination (motivational ambivalence) | |||
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==About the book== | ==About the book== | ||
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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.'' | ''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 has four parts | The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality has [[Table of Contents|four parts]] and contains over 200 entries. It is currently on a [[Global_Book_Launch_Events|global tour]]. | ||
==Short introduction to the project== | |||
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==Reviews== | |||
*Ignacio Fradejas-García, Ignacio. 2018. [https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/periferia.658 'Reseña de “The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality: Understanding Social and Cultural Complexity” de Alena Ledeneva (Ed.)'], Perifèria 23(2) [in Spanish] | |||
==About the FRINGE Centre for the Study of Social and Cultural Complexity== | ==About the FRINGE Centre for the Study of Social and Cultural Complexity== | ||