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Theorising informality and social embeddedness for the study of informal transport. Lessons from the marshrutka mobility phenomenon
Journal of Transport Geography ( IF 5.899 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2019.01.006
Lela Rekhviashvili , Wladimir Sgibnev

Abstract This paper builds upon recent post-structuralist writings on informal economic practices, using most importantly a Polanyian institutionalist framework, to discuss formal/informal and market/non-market practices in the transport sector. The article proposes a critical reading of the literary canon of informal transport, which largely assumes a naturalness and omnipresence of markets. We illustrate how reductionist definitions of informal transport marginalise analytically important empirical detail, and furthermore, lead to misleading theoretical conclusions. In contrast, we analytically de-couple informality and markets, showing that formal and informal economic practices can be embedded in diverse social-cultural institutions. Such a theoretical framework allows for consistent evaluation and empirical examination of transport options, as substantiated by evidence from the marshrutka mobility phenomenon in Bishkek and Tbilisi. We observe marketisation, dis- or re-embedding, formalisation and informalisation as dynamic, inter-dependent and conflictual processes. On these grounds, the article argues for a critical re-appraisal of other forms of informal transport, old and emerging, both in the Global South and the Global North.

中文翻译:

非正式交通研究的非正式性和社会嵌入性理论。马什鲁特卡流动现象的教训

摘要 本文建立在最近关于非正规经济实践的后结构主义著作的基础上,最重要的是使用波兰制度主义框架,讨论运输部门的正式/非正式和市场/非市场实践。这篇文章建议对非正式交通的文学经典进行批判性阅读,该经典在很大程度上假设市场是自然的和无所不在的。我们说明了非正式交通的简化定义如何边缘化分析上重要的经验细节,并进一步导致误导性的理论结论。相比之下,我们通过分析将非正规和市场脱钩,表明正规和非正规经济实践可以嵌入不同的社会文化制度中。这种理论框架允许对交通选择进行一致的评估和实证检验,比什凯克和第比利斯的马什鲁特卡流动现象的证据证实了这一点。我们将市场化、脱嵌或重新嵌入、正规化和非正规化视为动态、相互依赖和冲突的过程。基于这些理由,本文主张对全球南方和全球北方的其他形式的非正式交通,无论是旧的还是新兴的,进行批判性的重新评估。
更新日期:2020-10-01
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