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Resources and opportunity / Ontita Edward

Public ISBD Titre : Resources and opportunity : the architecture of livelihoods in rural Kenya Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ontita Edward, Auteur Editeur : Oxford : Regnum Année de publication : 2012 Collection : Regnum studies in mission Importance : 1 vol. (xvii, 328 p.) Présentation : illustrations Format : 23 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-908355-04-1 Note générale : Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-319) and indexes. Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Société:Communautés Tags : Agricultural laborers -- Kenya -- Nyamira District. Rural development -- Kenya. Rural poor -- Kenya. Index. décimale : 307.1 Résumé : Poor people in most rural areas of developing countries often improvise resources in unique ways to enable them make a living. Resources & Opportunity takes the view that resources are dynamic and fluid, arguing that villagers co-produce them through redefinition and renaming in everyday practice, and use them in diverse ways. The book focuses inter alia on ordinary social activities to bring out people's creativity in locating, redesigning and embracing livelihood opportunities in processes anchored in social relationships that span local, national, regional and international borders. The book uniquely brings out the respective tensions between agency and structure, locality and globality in livelihood construction in rural Kenya. Note de contenu : Introduction: moving into Sengeta -- A historical overview of the Nyamira landscape -- Resources and livelihood: a theoretical mapping -- Methodological approach -- Smallholder tea farming and livelihood -- Everyday dealings in smallholder tea markets: Soko Huru, Mashabiki and 'ghost farmers' -- Does deagrarianisation mean moving permanently away from agriculutre? -- Livelihood diversification -- Lifestyles and the search for social security in everyday life -- Re-defining resources in everyday practice -- Resources and livelihoods: looking forward. Resources and opportunity : the architecture of livelihoods in rural Kenya [texte imprimé] / Ontita Edward, Auteur . - Oxford : Regnum, 2012 . - 1 vol. (xvii, 328 p.) : illustrations ; 23 cm. - (Regnum studies in mission) . ISBN : 978-1-908355-04-1 Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-319) and indexes. Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Société:Communautés Tags : Agricultural laborers -- Kenya -- Nyamira District. Rural development -- Kenya. Rural poor -- Kenya. Index. décimale : 307.1 Résumé : Poor people in most rural areas of developing countries often improvise resources in unique ways to enable them make a living. Resources & Opportunity takes the view that resources are dynamic and fluid, arguing that villagers co-produce them through redefinition and renaming in everyday practice, and use them in diverse ways. The book focuses inter alia on ordinary social activities to bring out people's creativity in locating, redesigning and embracing livelihood opportunities in processes anchored in social relationships that span local, national, regional and international borders. The book uniquely brings out the respective tensions between agency and structure, locality and globality in livelihood construction in rural Kenya. Note de contenu : Introduction: moving into Sengeta -- A historical overview of the Nyamira landscape -- Resources and livelihood: a theoretical mapping -- Methodological approach -- Smallholder tea farming and livelihood -- Everyday dealings in smallholder tea markets: Soko Huru, Mashabiki and 'ghost farmers' -- Does deagrarianisation mean moving permanently away from agriculutre? -- Livelihood diversification -- Lifestyles and the search for social security in everyday life -- Re-defining resources in everyday practice -- Resources and livelihoods: looking forward.

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