Ma¿gorzata Irek

Travelling with the Argonauts

Informal Networks Seen without a Vertical Lens

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on rich ethnographic materials from longitudinal fieldwork on informal trading routes across Europe, Travelling with the Argonauts offers a new perspective in the research of the social space, reflecting on how best to investigate amorphous social phenomena, such as informal networks. Breaking with much current theory, the approach detailed here - the 'Restricted Verticality Perspective' - examines the horizontal dimension of social relations, and understands informality not as marginal or substandard, but as life itself, as the real experience of ordinary people.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781785338984
• ISBN-10: 1785338986
• Artikelnr.: 50228116

Autorenporträt

Malgorzata Irek is a sociologist, anthropologist, and philologist. For over thirty years, she has researched social phenomena connected with the informal economy, including "irregular" migration, informal employment, and informal networks.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Restricted Verticality Perspective in Researching Informal
Networks: Concepts, Definitions and Theoretical Approaches to Informality
Chapter 2. Empirical Research on Informal Social Phenomena and the
Limitations of Formal Methods
Chapter 3. Exiting the Emic-Etic Logic: How to Conduct Successful Fieldwork
on Informal Phenomena
Chapter 4. Thinking Beyond Sectors: Informal Economy and Informal Networks
Chapter 5. Escaping Locality: Ethnography beyond Systems, Zones, Countries
and Sites
Chapter 6. Interfaces between the Formal and the Informal: Actors, Places
and Routes
Afterword
Bibliography
Index