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Travelling with the Argonauts : Informal Networks Seen without a Vertical Lens / Małgorzata Irek.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781785338984
  • 9781785338991
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  • 382.094 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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