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.
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.
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
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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