GLOBAL INFORMALITY PROJECT Newsletter No 12 15 January 2018 Dear Authors, The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality is out in paper and online. It is available in open access for a free download at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/global-encyclopedia-of-informality-i https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/global-encyclopaedia-of-informality-ii Congratulations to all of us! Please add the download link to your email signature and to your profile on social media (Facebook; Twitter; Linked in etc) and various research gates (Academia; ssrn; Please inform your colleagues, students and friends about the publication Please come to the book launch event on 22 March 2018 in London, hosted by the UCL Global Engagement Fund and FRINGE Centre at the UCL Institute of the Advanced Studies, from 2.30 to 7.30pm. LONDON LAUNCH We plan to start promptly at 2.30pm with a workshop with a working title So hat? Gi en that a lot of authors and guests have confirmed their participation, we can organize several group discussions for an hour, followed by a joint roundtable and a drinks party. The proposed themes for the discussion of the implications of the Global Informality Project are:  Globalizing knowledge  Leaning commons  Building on resistance capacity  Power distance and closed access societies  Theory and practice of ambivalence  Complexity and pattern recognition  Superseding dichotomies  Cyber-informality  Informal governance  Area studies without borders  Cross-disciplinary analysis  Curious incidents in the dataset (what does not fit?) If you can be in London on this date, please let me know which group you would like to be in. We cannot pay the flight but we will be able to get a night at a hotel for you! GLOBAL LAUNCH: Thank you to all authors who has volunteered already to organize book launch events in their universities and other professional platforms and associations. In alphabetical order: Bazel, Switzerland (Lucy Koelcin and Claudia Baez) Belgrade, Serbia (Ivana Spasic and Predrag Cveticanin) Boston, USA (Sheila Puffer) Lund, Sweden (Rustam Urenboyev) Montreal, Canada (Tina Hilgers) Moscow, Russia (Svetlana Barsukova) New York, NY (Sven Horak, Jessica Allina-Pisano) Paris, France (Florence Weber) Riga, Latvia (Klāvs Sedlenieks) San Diego State University Imperial Valley Campus (David Jancsics) Skopje, Macedonia (FYROM) (Misha Popovikj) Tokyo, Japan (Satoshi Sato) Washington DC, USA (Sergei Samoylenko and Marlene Laruelle) Tampa Florida, USA (Golfo Alexopolous) We need more events around the world. Please let me know if you would like to organize an event at your university or at a professional association meeting. Any format is welcome, from a seminar with students and colleagues to a small informal celebration. UCL Press will send you leaflets, paper copies and I will be happy to join in by Skype. Thank you to all those who have been in touch about possible book launches, and I look forward to hear from more of you, Alena Ledeneva Professor of Politics and Society University College London