A01=Magorzata Irek
A01=Malgorzata Irek
Anthropology (General)
Author_Magorzata Irek
Author_Malgorzata Irek
Category=JH
Category=JHMC
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Mobility Studies
Theory and Methodology
Product details
- ISBN 9781785338984
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jun 2018
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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.
Malgorzata Irek is a sociologist, anthropologist and philologist. For over thirty years, she has researched social phenomena connected with the informal economy, including `irregular' migration, informal employment and informal networks. She has worked at the Free University of Berlin, the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, and the University of Oxford (among other institutions), and her publications include The European Roots of the Harlem Renaissance (1994) and Der Schmugglerzug (1998).
