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Author Irek, Małgorzata, author

Title Travelling with the argonauts : informal networks seen without a vertical lens / Malgorzata Irek
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2018
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Contents The restricted verticality perspective in researching informal networks : concepts, definitions and theoretical approaches to informality -- Empirical research on informal social phenomena and the limitations of formal methods -- Exiting the emic-etic logic : how to conduct successful fieldwork on informal phenomena -- Thinking beyond sectors : informal economy and informal networks -- Escaping locality : ethnography beyond systems, zones, countries and sites -- Interfaces between the formal and the informal : actors, places and routes
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 27, 2018)
Subject Trade routes -- Europe -- History
Business networks -- Europe -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Business networks
Trade routes
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018010233
ISBN 9781785338991
1785338994