Travelling with the Argonauts : : Informal Networks Seen without a Vertical Lens /

Travelling with the Argonauts : : Informal Networks Seen without a Vertical Lens / / Małgorzata Irek.

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. Breaki...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Irek, Małgorzata,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (234 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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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