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The Informal Post-Socialist Economy - Embedded practices and livelihoods (Hardcover)
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The Informal Post-Socialist Economy - Embedded practices and livelihoods (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
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From smugglers to entrepreneurs, blue-collar workers and taxi
drivers, this book deals with the multitude of characters engaged
in informal economic practices in the former socialist regions.
Going beyond a conception of informality as opposed to the formal
sector, its authors demonstrate the fluid nature of informal
transactions straddling the crossroads between illegal, illicit,
socially acceptable and symbolically meaningful practices. Their
argument is informed by a wide range of case studies, from Central
Europe to the Baltics and Central Asia, each of which is
constructed around a single informant. Each chapter narrates the
story of a composite person or household that was carefully
selected or constructed by an author with long-standing
ethnographic research experience in the given field site. Wide in
geographical, empirical and theoretical scope, the book uses
ethnographic narrative accounts of everyday life to make links
between 'ordinary' meanings of informality. Challenging reductively
economistic perspectives on cross-border trading, undeclared work
and other informal activities, the authors illustrate the wide
variety of interpretive meanings that people ascribe to such
practices. Alongside 'getting by' and 'getting ahead' in recently
marketised societies, these meanings relate to sociality,
kinship-ties and solidarity, along with more surprising 'political'
and moral reasonings.
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