Global Encyclopaedia of Informality Book Launch
22 March 2018, 4:00 pm–8:00 pm

Event Information
Open to
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Location
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IAS Common Ground, Ground Floor, South Wing
Join the FRINGE Centre for this launch, which marks the first publication in the FRINGE Series.
Alena Ledeneva 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
paradox, or not, of the invisibility of these informal practices is
their ubiquity. Expertly practised by insiders but often hidden from
outsiders, informal practices are, as this book shows, deeply rooted all
over the world, yet underestimated in policy. Entries from the five
continents presented in this volume are samples of the truly global and
ever-growing collection, made possible by a remarkable collaboration of
over 200 scholars across disciplines and area studies. Read more about the Encyclopaedia here.
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