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  1. Informality as Infrastructure: Migrant Agency and the Collapse of Formal Routes Between Syria and Europe

    Article • Journal of Borderlands Studies, August 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  2. 25MB/sec Activism: Reframing Political Participation in Kazakhstan after January 2022

    Article • Central Asian Affairs, March 2026, De Gruyter

    Abel Polese

  3. Who “knows better?” epistemic binaries, epistemocides and the risks of (selective) decolonisation in Central Asian narratives

    Article • Eurasian Geography and Economics, February 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Timur Dadabaev, Abel Polese

  4. Informal Governance and Crisis

    Article • August 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  5. Introduction: Everyday informality and governance dynamics in crisis situations and beyond

    Article • August 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  6. There's nothing more permanent than temporary solutions: The solar panel transition and everyday coping in Lebanon's multi-dimensional crisis since 2020

    Article • August 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  7. Everyday informality and governance dynamics in crisis situations and beyond

    Article • Third World Quarterly, December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  8. There’s nothing more permanent than temporary solutions: the solar panel transition and everyday coping in Lebanon’s multi-dimensional crisis since 2020

    Article • Third World Quarterly, November 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  9. When “branding” meets “building:” the consequences of nation branding on identity in Kyrgyzstan and Estonia

    Article • Journal of Baltic Studies, November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  10. Informality versus shadow economy: reflecting on the first results of a manager’s survey in Kyrgyzstan

    Article • Central Asian Survey, August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  11. What is informality? (Mapping) “the art of bypassing the state” in Eurasian spaces - and beyond

    Article • Eurasian Geography and Economics, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  12. Transnational (Im)mobilities and Informality in Europe

    Article • MIGRATION LETTERS, March 2021, Dewspublication

    Abel Polese

  13. Limited Statehood and Informal Governance in the Middle East and Africa

    Article • October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  14. National Identity for Breakfast: Food Consumption and the Everyday Construction of National Narratives in Estonia

    Article • Nationalities Papers, August 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Abel Polese

  15. Estonian Identity Construction Between Nation Branding and Building

    Article • Mezinárodní vztahy, June 2020, Institute of International Relations Prague

    Abel Polese

  16. Informality and access to finance during socialism and transition – the case of the rotating savings and credit schemes

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Economics, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Abel Polese

  17. Luxury consumption as identity markers in Tallinn: A study of Russian and Estonian everyday identity construction through consumer citizenship

    Article • Journal of Consumer Culture, December 2019, SAGE Publications

    Abel Polese

  18. Coping strategies of cancer patients in Ukraine

    Article • The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, May 2019, Wiley

    Abel Polese

  19. Introduction: “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”: Transnational Perspectives on the Extralegal Field

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Abel Polese

  20. Negotiating Spaces and the Public–Private Boundary: Language Policies Versus Language Use Practices in Odessa

    Article • Space and Culture, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Abel Polese

  21. On sustainability and its perceptions: Presenting the results of the first national survey on Sustainable Development Goals and its understanding by Vietnamese youth

    Article • RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA, July 2018, Franco Angeli

    Abel Polese

  22. Limited Statehood and its Security Implications on the Fragmentation Political Order in the Middle East and North Africa

    Article • Small Wars and Insurgencies, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  23. Informality and Ukrainian higher educational institutions: Happy together?

    Article • Policy Futures in Education, March 2018, SAGE Publications

    Abel Polese

  24. Estonie : la diplomatie du marketing national

    Article • Hermès, January 2018, CAIRN

    Abel Polese

  25. Liberalism and shadow interventionism in post-revolutionary Georgia (2003–2012)

    Article • Caucasus Survey, October 2017, Brill Deutschland GmbH

    Abel Polese

  26. Introduction: Informality and power in the South Caucasus

    Article • Caucasus Survey, October 2017, Brill Deutschland GmbH

    Abel Polese

  27. “Scandinavia's best-kept secret.”†Tourism promotion, nation-branding, and identity construction in Estonia (with a free guided tour of Tallinn Airport)

    Article • Nationalities Papers, September 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Abel Polese

  28. Informality ‘in spite of’ or ‘beyond’ the state: some evidence from Hungary and Romania

    Article • European Societies, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr David Jancsics, Abel Polese

  29. Strategies of legitimation in Central Asia: regime durability in Turkmenistan

    Article • Contemporary Politics, May 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  30. Looking at the ‘sharing’ economies concept through the prism of informality

    Article • Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society, February 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Jeremy Morris, Abel Polese

  31. Consommation, identité et intégration en Estonie et en Lettonie

    Article • Hermès, January 2017, CAIRN

    Abel Polese

  32. “States” of informality in post-socialist Europe (and beyond)

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Jeremy Morris, Abel Polese

  33. Informality currencies: a tale of Misha, his brigada and informal practices among Uzbek labour migrants in Russia

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  34. Introduction: hybrid warfare in post-Soviet spaces, is there a logic behind?

    Article • Small Wars and Insurgencies, April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  35. Between “imagined” and “real” nation-building: identities and nationhood in post-Soviet Central Asia

    Article • Nationalities Papers, May 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Abel Polese

  36. A tale of two presidents: personality cult and symbolic nation-building in Turkmenistan

    Article • Nationalities Papers, May 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Abel Polese

  37. Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    Jeremy Morris, Abel Polese

  38. Introduction: The Failure and Future of the Welfare State in Post-socialism

    Article • Journal of Eurasian Studies, January 2015, Elsevier

    Jeremy Morris, Abel Polese

  39. Informality and survival in Ukraine's nuclear landscape: Living with the risks of Chernobyl

    Article • Journal of Eurasian Studies, January 2015, SAGE Publications

    Abel Polese

  40. Informal Payments in Ukrainian Hospitals: On the Boundary between Informal Payments, Gifts, and Bribes

    Article • Anthropological Forum, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  41. ‘Welfare States’ and Social Policies in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR: Where Informality Fits In?

    Article • Journal of Contemporary European Studies, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Jeremy Morris, Abel Polese

  42. Informal health and education sector payments in Russian and Ukrainian cities: Structuring welfare from below

    Article • European Urban and Regional Studies, March 2014, SAGE Publications

    Jeremy Morris, Abel Polese

  43. The Informal Post-Socialist Economy

    Article • December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Colin C Williams, Jeremy Morris, Abel Polese

  44. Between ‘official’ and ‘unofficial’ temperatures: introducing a complication to the hot and cold ethnicity theory from Odessa

    Article • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  45. Conflict and Peace in Eurasia

    Article • November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Henryk Szadziewski, Abel Polese

  46. Surviving post‐socialism: the role of informal economic practices

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, October 2011, Emerald

    Abel Polese

  47. Informal economy, informal state: the case of Uzbekistan

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, October 2011, Emerald

    Abel Polese

  48. Performing the cross‐border economies of post‐socialism

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, October 2011, Emerald

    Abel Polese

  49. Methodological issues in studying hidden populations operating in informal economy

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, October 2011, Emerald

    Abel Polese

  50. Socially embedded workers at the nexus of diverse work in Russia

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, October 2011, Emerald

    Jeremy Morris, Abel Polese

  51. Smuggling and small‐scale trade as part of informal economic practices

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, October 2011, Emerald

    Abel Polese

  52. Tracing informal and illicit flows after socialism

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, October 2011, Emerald

    Abel Polese

  53. Russia, the US, “the Others” and the “101 Things to Do to Win a (Colour) Revolution”: Reflections on Georgia and Ukraine

    Article • Debatte Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, April 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  54. ‘Rocking the vote’: new forms of youth organisations in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

    Article • Journal of Youth Studies, August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  55. The Colour Revolutions in the Former Soviet Republics

    Article • July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  56. The formal and the informal: exploring ‘Ukrainian’ education in Ukraine, scenes from Odessa

    Article • Comparative Education, February 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  57. Ukraine 2004: Informal Networks, Transformation of Social Capital and Coloured Revolutions

    Article • The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Abel Polese

  58. Odessa and Lvov or Odesa and Lviv: How Important is a Letter? Reflections on the “Other” in Two Ukrainian Cities

    Article • Nationalities Papers, November 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Abel Polese

  59. Introduction

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Abel Polese