Latest posts tagged with #informality on Bluesky
I had the pleasure of participating in a fantastic workshop on #Informality, Sustainable Livelihoods & #UHC in January sponsored by @gdp-center.bsky.social in Nairobi, led by @bostonu.bsky.social colleagues Lawrence Were & Solomon Owusu with experts from around the region www.bu.edu/gdp/2026/03/...
New article: why a lot of #informality research has been broken by poor measurements and inappropriate modelling - and what we can do about it. Completely open access in @ilr-rit.bsky.social:
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At a time when capitalist polycrises intensify debates around #informality, #solidarity economies, and post-capitalist futures, the Zapatista experience offers a concrete and long-standing example of organized #autonomy.
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🌍NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ A. Fenchouch
🔍 Real estate dynamics and ordinary urban fabric: exploring tactical adaptation, anticipation, and land transformations. #Informality #Densification #Algiers
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I've just published "You can't see the workers from above”: The Myth of European “Formality” and the Fight for Essential Informal Workers' Legalization in Spain.
From the Series: Where Have All the Workers Gone? #anthropology #antropología #informality #regularization
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🎉 Bored of the #festivities?
Take a #break… and help research informal #economies in #Mexico 🇲🇽
Join a global #Delphi survey spanning 15 countries to rethink post-pandemic socioeconomic #change with #PRESILIENT!
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#informality #postpandemic #research #PhD
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The #PRESILIENT Africa group is launching a #CfP!
Join us for a #workshop in #Casablanca, #Morocco, 14-15 April 2026!
"Reimagining informal economies and practices across #Africa"
Full CfP:
www.presilient-dn.eu/open-calls/r...
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#research #informality #MSCA
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💥 New article out!
So excited that this piece has found a home in Dialectical Anthropology!
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#autonomy #resistances #zapatistacommunities #solidarity #networks #alternatives #informality #EZLN #Chiapas #Mexico
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🧩 Early view
What does #intermediation look like in #WeaklyIinstitutionalized contexts characterized by limited #state #oversight and prevalent #informality ❓
Aviram Sharma draws empirical insights from the #BottledWater quality regulations in #India 👇
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Worth a re-read: #Tokyo —The world’s biggest city also one of its most liveable. Despite the best efforts of modern planners, extensive parts of the city developed auto-catalytically; curbing space available for cars. #informality #humanscale #walkability #density
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Tried today to make sense of #informality today and how and why I still want to use terms like #informaleconomy and #informaltransport. Problem is the distinction formal/informal is largely predicated on position a short and geographically limited form of capitalist regulation, #fordism, as norm […]
Today is the UN Day for South–South Cooperation.
Informality shapes daily life — and resilience — in many Southern cities. This paper unpacks the equity and decision-making implications.
Read the full paper: bit.ly/47FjB27
#SouthSouthCooperation #UrbanResilience #Equity #Informality
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Webinar on presumptive taxes invitation card
📢Presumptive taxes are widely used to engage with informal economies -but how well do they actually work?
Our upcoming webinar for the Informality & Tax Community of Practice explores new evidence and challenges.
👉Join the discussion: mailchi.mp/ictd.ac/ictd...
#Tax #Informality #PresumptiveTaxes
Urban #Aesthetics, Nuisance, and Refugees: Local Business Litigation and #UrbanLaw in South African Cities
Author: James (Jay) G. G. Johnson
University of Vermont
#forcedmigration #middleclasspolitics #informality
🚨 We’re live!
Job Flexibility and Informality
with Angélica Martínez Leyva (Ph.D., University of Warwick).
📌 Labour regulations, caregivers & informality in Mexico.
📺 Watch now on YouTube 👉 bit.ly/4mhejOt
#UNAMUK #MexSocUK #GenderEquality #Informality
🎓 Job Flexibility and Informality
Seminar with Angélica Martínez Leyva (Ph.D., University of Warwick).
📌 Labour regulations, caregivers & informality in Mexico.
🗓 2 Sept | 10:00 MX – 17:00 UK
🔗 Register: bit.ly/475tINr
#GenderEquality #LabourMarkets #Informality
🎓 New seminar #UNAMUK | #MexSocUK
Job Flexibility and Informality with Angélica Martínez Leyva (Ph.D., University of Warwick).
📌 How labour regulations in Mexico limit flexible jobs and push caregivers into informality.
🔗 Register: bit.ly/475tINr
#GenderEquality #LabourMarkets #Informality
➡️ Full details available here: https://lnkd.in/emY-eVaN
🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE CFP
“THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAGILITY OF INCLUSION IN CONTEMPORARY HRM SYSTEMS"
-️ Submission due: 25 Sept. 2026
➡️ Details here: lnkd.in/emY-eVaN
#DEIB #HRM #Leadership #Identity #Belonging #Diversity #Talentmanagement #Opportunity #Gender #Race #Class #Informality #Power #HRSystems
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Editors' Featured Articles: @jlewmcd.bsky.social argues for a "materialist approach to #informality" which "argues against the liberal and postmodern idea that informality in cities is disconnected from the capitalist system and an overarching capitalist logic."
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🚨 For #DomesticWorkers, #informality is not a choice — it’s the result of:
⚠️ Exclusion from labor laws
⚠️ Legal gaps that hinder enforcement
⚠️ Non-compliance
📢 But at the #ILC2025, decision-makers can choose to adopt pathways to #formalization.
✊🏽 #TakeAction
🔎 IDWF Position Paper 👉 loom.ly/aWE7cHE
🚨 Tackling #informality in #DomesticWork is not impossible — it requires innovative approaches and political will
📢 At the #ILC2025, we urge governments to take real action now: #DecentWork for #DomesticWorkers can’t wait! ⏱️
👓 Check out our Position Paper here ➡️ idwfed.org/calls-to-act...
#PRESILIENT has a new LinkedIn page:
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#university #PhD #MSCA #network #research #informality #GlobalSouth
Under #ENACTUS, 5 enterprises are conducting targeted consumer insights sessions in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area 🇺🇬 to boost #cleancooking access for 230,000+ households living in #informality.
We are listening, learning & co-creating solutions rooted in lived realities.
The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages book cover
New #BookReview by Hesam Kamalipour: The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages by Kim Dovey and Redento B. Recio
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#informality
The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages book cover. Green and blue overlapping circles design
New #BookReview by Hesam Kamalipour: The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages by Kim Dovey and Redento B. Recio
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#informality
Migrants stranded in Mexico following the United States' harsh immigration policies work as street vendors, bricklayers, painters, and even sex workers. #Migrants #AmericanDream #Trump #Informality #Mexico
There are many reasons to be worried about the relationship between #tax and #informality. But after a workshop with policymakers, CSOs and researchers from >20 countries, Vanessa van den Boogaard and I instead discuss 3 grounds for optimism - and how to make them real.
www.ictd.ac/blog/reasons...
Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh book cover
New #BookReview by Lipon Mondal: Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh: The Production of Counterspace by Lutfun Nahar Lata
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#Dhaka #informality #StreetVendors
This month, we are celebrating all things #informality and #tax - an ICTD research theme led by @maxgallien.bsky.social and Vanessa van den Boogaard.
Why not start by watching this interview with them both?
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A very insightful workshop at University of Naples L'Orientale on #informality where yesterday I presented a paper w/t @fededonelli.bsky.social on policy approaches to #ConflictManagement from below. We brought the two novel cases of #Colombia Indigenous Guard 🇨🇴 and #Somalia Ma'awisley militias 🇸🇴
