Resources and Opportunity: The Architecture of Livelihoods in Rural Kenya - Softcover

Ontita, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908355042 ISBN 13: 9781908355041

Publisher: Regnum Books International

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Edward Ontita holds a PhD in Development Sociology from Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands, and is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology & Social Work, University of Nairobi, Kenya. He is an M&E Expert with CRESS-Africa Consulting, which focuses on development management research and training in Eastern Africa. In 2011, he was a Visiting Research Scholar at Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS), Oxford, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Regnum Books International
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908355042
• ISBN 13: 9781908355041
• Binding: Paperback