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A three-part series within Mergers & Acquisitions, the podcast of the Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA)
Across three episodes, this series explores informality as a mode of world-making - where everyday negotiation, relational ethics, and improvisation shape economic life. Bringing together perspectives from Latin America, Africa, and Central Asia, the conversations move beyond seeing informality as a deficiency or as something to be controlled and formalized, examining instead its ambivalences, its creative potential, and its social and political meanings
Produced by PhD fellows of the PRESILIENT network
Episode 1
A conversation with Alena Ledeneva
Guest: Alena Ledeneva, Professor of Politics and Sociology, UCL, founder of the Global Informality Project
Hosts: Miria Gambardella and Daniela D'Urso
What does "informality" actually allow us to see? This opening episode traces Ledeneva's intellectual journey, from her early work on informal practices in the Soviet and post-Soviet context to a comparative approach to informality across societies. The conversation centers on the porous boundaries between formal and informal, and how informal practices shape governance, trust, power, and economic life.
Episode 2
Coming soon!
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