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*Grammars of Informality*
One-day workshop of the CEELBAS *Languages of Informality* interdisciplinary
research network
ALL WELCOME
Keith Hart has defined 'informal' economic practices as those falling
outside of or which are invisible to bureaucratic form. 'Informality' is
dies not exist in any empirical sense: it is a way of contrasting some
phenomena with what we imagine constiutes the orthodox core of our economy.
Under the title *Grammars of Informality*, the aim of this workshop will be
to critically analyse the language(s) used by citizens, academics, and
policy-makers to speak about informal economic practices (including
corruption) in an effort to break the unreflective import of normative
analytical categories. How has the increasing 'flexibilization' of the
economy and of global labour markets have challenged normative categories
of 'formal' and 'informal' institutione? Are these changes reflected in the
manner in which these concepts are currently being used by socio-legal
scholars, anthropologists and organizations such as Transparency
International? And how can perspectives from further afield throw light on
the case of the former Soviet Europe and Eurasia?
Wednesday, 29th May, 2013
Venue: School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford 11
Bevington Road, OX2 6LH, Oxford. Lunch, tea, coffee provided.
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*Programme*
*12:30 Registration and Welcome*
David Henig (Kent) & Nicolette Makovicky (Oxford)
*13:00 Theme 1: The Vicissitudes of ‘Informal Economy’ in Anthropology and
Beyond*
*Democracy, Informality and the redistributive economy in South Africa*
Erik Baehre (University of Leiden)
*14:00 Coffee*
*14:15 Theme 2: Formal Languages of Informal Economy*
*Informal Languages of Formal Economy*
Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (University of Cambridge)
*15:15 Coffee*
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*15:30 Theme 3: Emerging Directions*
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*New Capitalism or New Orthodoxy? From the informal sector to flexible
labour*
Prof Victoria Goddard (Goldsmiths College)
*16:30 Coffee and Open Discussion*
*18:00 Drinks and Dinner*
*The Languages of Informality research network is organized jointly by
School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford, and School
of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent; with generous funding
from the Centre for East European Language Based Studies (CEELBAS). *
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