Debat 'Book discussion: The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 3'

The volume, edited by Alena Ledeneva (UCL) 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.

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Speaker: Dr Gian Marco Moisé

Dr. Gian Marco Moisé studied Politics and International Relations in Dublin. Since 2022, he is Programme Analyst in democracy development in Brussels. Previously, Moisé was Ph.D. candidate at Dublin City University and a fellow of the MSCA RISE SHADOW: An exploration of the nature of informal economies and shadow practices in the former USSR region. Moisé is author of Understanding Politics, a YouTube Channel teaching political theory to students. His previous books include Capire I Balcani Orientali: Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova: dal 1989 ai giorni nostri (Bottega Errante Editore 2023). His papers have been published by, among other outlets, Central Asian Survey, Journal of Extreme Anthropology, and The Extractive Industries and Society.

This event is co-organised by Ghent Institute for International and European Studies and Ghent University's Eureast Platform.