TY  - BOOK
AU  - Irek,Małgorzata
TI  - Travelling with the Argonauts: Informal Networks Seen without a Vertical Lens 
SN  - 9781785338984
U1  - 382.094 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Business networks
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Trade routes
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology (General), Theory and Methodology, Mobility Studies
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785338991?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785338991
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785338991/original
ER  -