Travelling with the Argonauts

Informal Networks Seen without a Vertical Lens
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-898-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Irek, Ma¿gorzata

Irek, Malgorzata

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Irek, Malgorzata
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.