1st Edition

Informal Economies and Power

By Anna Danielsson Copyright 2019
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

The global ubiquity of informal economic activities has turned informality into a key policy question, not least in international peace- and state-building. This book explores a core aspect of economic informality: its resilience despite comprehensive international anti-informality operations. Using Kosovo as an illustrative case, Danielsson suggests that to understand the resilience of... Read more

Part I. 1. Power, Knowledge and the Informal Economy as Interwoven Practice 2.Rethinking Informal Economies through Symbolic Power Part II. 3. Logic of Exclusion put into Practice 4. Genesis of a Logic of Inclusion 5. Rearranging the Power of the Informal, and the Informal of Power 6. ‘Informality here is Everywhere’ Part III. 7. Conclusion





Biography

Anna Danielsson is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Government at Uppsala University, Sweden. In 2016–2018, she was a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, UK. Her research is situated at the nexus of international relations, international political economy, peace- and state-building, and the history and sociology of (scientific) knowledge. In her current work, Danielsson focuses on questions pertaining to the production of knowledge and expertise in peace- and statebuilding interventions, the production of and struggles over epistemic authority, and the role of the (social) sciences in governing social life.