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  • The SCOPUS Diaries and the (il)logics of Academic Survival

    A Short Guide to Design Your Own Strategy And Survive Bibliometrics, Conferences, and Unreal Expectations in Academia

    by Abel Polese ...
    Now that academics are required to be teachers, managers, media catalyzers, analysts, fundraisers, and social media animals: How do you strike a good balance between what is expected from you and what you want to do? What conferences to attend? How to find the money to go there? Is it worth it to act as a peer reviewer? What publishers are best to target? Is publishing a chapter in an edited book ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • Limits of a Post-Soviet State

    How Informality Replaces, Renegotiates, and Reshapes Governance in Contemporary Ukraine

    by Abel Polese, Andreas Umland ...
    Series Book 154 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    This book illustrates why and how informality in governance is not necessarily transitory or temporary, but a constant in most systems of the world. The difference between various administrative structures is not whether informality is present or not, but where, in which areas, it is located. The essays gathered in this volume demonstrate that, in some cases, informal mechanisms are self ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Nation-Building and Identity in the Post-Soviet Space

    New Tools and Approaches

    by Rico Isaacs, Abel Polese ...
    Series series Post-Soviet Politics
    Nation-building as a process is never complete and issues related to identity, nation, state and regime-building are recurrent in the post-Soviet region. This comparative, inter-disciplinary volume explores how nation-building tools emerged and evolved over the last twenty years. Featuring in-depth case studies from countries throughout the post-Soviet space it compares various aspects of nation ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Informal Governance and Crisis

    How Invisible, Everyday Tactics of Survival Affect, Reshape and Redesign Policymaking and Governance

    Edited by Joseph P. Helou, Abel Polese ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    This book examines the impact of crises on people’s lives by walking readers through several case studies from Mali, Niger, Kyrgyzstan, Brazil, Lebanon, Libya and several escape routes and entry points, such as the Canary Islands, into the European Union. It conceptualizes crises as events that disrupt political, social and economic orders, thus breeding ad hoc people-led solutions. These informal ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Informal Nationalism After Communism

    The Everyday Construction of Post-Socialist Identities

    Edited by Abel Polese, Oleksandra Seliverstova, Emilia Pawlusz, Dr Jeremy Morris ...
    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, nation building and identity construction in the post-socialist region have been the subject of extensive academic research. The majority of these studies have taken a 'top-down' approach - focusing on the variety of ways in which governments have sought to define the nascent nation states - and in the process have often oversimplified the complex and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Resistances

    Between Theories and the Field

    Edited by Sarah Murru, Abel Polese ...
    Series series Resistance Studies: Critical Engagements with Power and Social Change
    Our world today is experimenting a time of great power but also of tremendous resistances.Everywhere, people are brought together by similar burdens and frustration and creatively think about how to counter the forms of domination they are ascribed to. In academia as well there is an awakening among scholars to further investigate these multiple forms of resistance and equip the field with useful ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Governance Beyond the Law

    The Immoral, The Illegal, The Criminal

    Edited by Abel Polese, Alessandra Russo, Francesco Strazzari ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume explores the continuous line from informal and unrecorded practices all the way up to illegal and criminal practices, performed and reproduced by both individuals and organisations. The authors classify them as alternative, subversive forms of governance performed by marginal (and often invisible) peripheral actors. The volume studies how the informal and the extra-legal unfold ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Informal Post-Socialist Economy

    Embedded Practices and livelihoods

    Edited by Jeremy Morris, Abel Polese ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    From smugglers to entrepreneurs, blue-collar workers and taxi drivers, this book deals with the multitude of characters engaged in informal economic practices in the former socialist regions. Going beyond a conception of informality as opposed to the formal sector, its authors demonstrate the fluid nature of informal transactions straddling the crossroads between illegal, illicit, socially ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Limited Statehood and Informal Governance in the Middle East and Africa

    Edited by Ruth Hanau Santini, Abel Polese, Rob Kevlihan ...
    Series series Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
    Hybrid forms of governance – where the central state authority does not possess a monopoly of violence and fails to exercise control – are not only an epiphenomena, but a reality likely to persist. This book explores this phenomenon drawing on examples from the Middle East and Africa. It considers the different sorts of actors – state and non-state, public and private, national and transnational – ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Rethinking Statehood in the Middle East and North Africa

    Security, Sovereignty and New Political Orders

    Edited by Abel Polese, Ruth Hanau Santini ...
    Alternative forms of government and statehood exist in the Middle East and North African regions. The chapters in this volume demonstrate this and explore the notion of power from a non-statist perspective, highlighting the limits of states and their governance.Using empirical evidence from Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Tunisia, Iraq, Yemen, and Mali, the authors explore non-standard cases where power ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Post-socialist Informalities

    Power, Agency and the Construction of Extra-legalities from Bosnia to China

    Edited by Abel Polese, Lela Rekhviashvili, Borbála Kovács, Jeremy Morris ...
    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.In ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Informality, Labour Mobility and Precariousness

    Supplementing the State for the Invisible and the Vulnerable

    Edited by Abel Polese ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    From the erosion of state legitimacy in Lebanon to the use of smartphones in Kyrgyzstan, from a Polish suburb to the music scene in Azerbaijan, this volume attempts to explain why, in a variety of world regions, a substantial number of people tend to ignore or act against state rules. We propose to look at informality beyond simplistic associations of the phenomenon with a single category such as ... Read more

    $107.99 USD