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

摘要: Recent debates on informal economic activities have partially switched away from a pure monetary logic towards more complex one, embedded in long term relations and reckoning with non materialistic paradigms. The role of informality certain aspects people's lives has however, remained largely unexplored. This article uncovers what happens when the state retires (providing benefits social services to) geographic area kind mechanisms, practices institutions are created to make up for this. We suggest that, face de facto abandonment by welfare, absence private sector alternative, myriad transactions actors can this replacing these forms welfare informally. Our case study focuses nuclear landscapes around Chernobyl Exclusion Zone north–central Ukraine as we reveal ways excluded abandoned, which frame post-nuclear “bare life” (Agamben, 1998), mechanism security that is independent yet complements it. Informal, local unofficial understandings spaces central survival marginalised risky environment.