Post-socialist Informalities

<p>This 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. </p><p>In 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. </p><p>The 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.</p><p>They 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). </p><p>This book was originally published as two special issues of <i>Caucasus Survey </i>and the<i> Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.</i></p>