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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🔍 Real estate dynamics and ordinary urban fabric: exploring tactical adaptation, anticipation, and land transformations. #Informality #Densification #Algiers

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"You can't see the workers from above”: The Myth of European “Formality” and the Fight for Essential Informal Workers' Legalization in Spain Like a magician's trick, the myth of Europe's “formality” hides the vast informal migrant labor behind key sectors. Despite their essential roles...

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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SOCIOECONOMIC TRENDS AFTER THE PANDEMIC IN MEXICO This brief questionnaire is directed at country experts who can provide us with an advanced understanding of the country’s economic changes, business opportunities and challenges of a changing busines...

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Take a #break… and help research informal #economies in #Mexico 🇲🇽

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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"

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Networked alternatives against the state: zapatista autonomy and informality as resistance - Dialectical Anthropology Since their 1994 uprising, Zapatista communities have built social, political, and economic alternatives within autonomous territories, setting an example for multiple Transformation Initiatives and s...

💥 New article out!

So excited that this piece has found a home in Dialectical Anthropology!

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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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The big city that is also pleasant to live in Surprisingly, the world’s biggest city is also one of its most liveable

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.

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#SouthSouthCooperation #UrbanResilience #Equity #Informality

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📢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.

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#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

Seminar: Job Flexibility and Informality Explore how labour regulations in Mexico impact mothers’ work choices and drive informality.

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Job Flexibility and Informality
with Angélica Martínez Leyva (Ph.D., University of Warwick).

📌 Labour regulations, caregivers & informality in Mexico.
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🎓 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
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#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

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🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE CFP

“THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAGILITY OF INCLUSION IN CONTEMPORARY HRM SYSTEMS"

-️ Submission due: 25 Sept. 2026

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#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

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🚨 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! ⏱️

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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.

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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

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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

Reasons to be Optimistic about Tax and the Informal Sector - ICTD ICTD, in collaboration with WIEGO and ATAF, and with the support of the Ghana Revenue Authority, hosted a three-day closed workshop in Ghana on informal sector taxation.

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.
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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

IN FOCUS with Max Gallien and Vanessa van den Boogaard: informality and tax YouTube video by International Centre for Tax and Development

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 🇸🇴

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Customary land management systems and #UrbanPlanning in peri-urban informal settlements by Herman Geyer

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#informality

Very happy to see my piece published in @ecprtheloop.bsky.social! Always a pleasure to write about #informality and #accession, and share some insights from my new #book. Thanks, @vanghel.bsky.social, for invitation to contribute to this timely and fascinating series!