{"product_id":"post-socialist-informalities-abel-polese-9780367321918","title":"Post-socialist Informalities: Power, Agency and the Construction of Extra-legalities from Bosnia to China","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is a comprehensive collection of key scholarship on informality from the whole post-socialist region. From Bosnia to Central Asia, passing through Russia and Azerbaijan, the contributions to this volume illustrate the multi-faceted and complex nature of informality, while demonstrating the growing scholarly and policy debates that have developed around the understanding of informality. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn contrast to approaches which tend to classify informality as 'bad' or 'transitional' - meaning that modernity will make it disappear - this edited volume concentrates on dynamics and mechanisms to understand and explain informality, while also debating its relationship with the market and society. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe authors seek to explain informality beyond a mere monetaristic\/economistic approach, rediscovering its interconnection with social phenomena to propose a more holistic interpretation of the meaning of informality and its influence in various spheres of life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThey do this by exploring the evolving role of informal practices in the post-socialist region, and by focusing on informality as a social organisation determinant but also looking at the way it reshapes emergent social resistance against symbolic and real political order(s). \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book was originally published as two special issues, of \u003ci\u003eCaucasus Survey \u003c\/i\u003eand the\u003ci\u003e Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Abel Polese\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367321912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367321918\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.80w x 0.70d","brand":"Abel Polese","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48152975638783,"sku":"9780367321918","price":62.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0ad47b2f-6a8a-4fee-bd84-8fac3dad6bee.jpg?v=1770780448","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/post-socialist-informalities-abel-polese-9780367321918","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}