Ledeneva, Alena (Ed).
(2024)
The Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 3: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Informal Problem-Solving in Human Life.
Fringe.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
For a post-human hitchhiker, human life – with its anxiety, ageing, illness and constant need for problem-solving – may look unviable. Yet, for humans, the life struggle is softened by human touch, human emotion and human cooperation. The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 3 continues the journey of the two previous volumes into the world’s open secrets, unwritten rules and hidden practices. It focuses on issues of emotional ambivalence and pressures of the digital age. The informal practices presented in this volume demonstrate the urgency of alleviating tensions between continuity and all-too-rapid change and the need to tackle the central problem of modern societies – uncertainty. The volume takes a reader on a ‘biographical’ journey through elusive, taken-for-granted or banal ways of getting things done from over 70 countries and world regions. It offers innovative understanding of the significance of fringes, and challenges the assumption that informality is associated exclusively with poverty, underdevelopment, the Global South, oppressive regimes or the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It also maps the patterns of informality around the globe; identifies specific informal practices in a context-sensitive way; and documents their ambivalent impact on people engaged in problem-solving, on societies in which these problems arise, and on humanity overall.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 3: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Informal Problem-Solving in Human Life |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800086142 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800086142 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800086142 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editor, 2024 Text © Contributors, 2024 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in the captions, 2024 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY- NC 4.0), https://creativecomm ons.org/licenses/by-nc/ 4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non- commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Ledeneva, A. (ed). 2024. The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality: A hitchhiker’s guide to informal problem- solving in human life, Volume 3. London: UCL Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800086142. Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | informality, political science, sociology, socialism, gender |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10187134 |
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