TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meagher, Kate.
TI  - Identity economics: social networks & the informal economy in Nigeria
SN  - 9781847010162
U1  - 330.96MEA 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Woodbridge
PB  - James Currey
KW  - Informal sector (Economics)--Africa
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-200) and index
N2  - Identity Economics traces the rise of two dynamic informal enterprise clusters in Nigeria, and explores their slide into trajectories of Pentecostalism, poverty and violent vigilantism. Drawing on over twenty years of empirical research on African informal economies, the author highlights the institutional legacies, networking strategies and globalizing dynamics that shape the regulatory role of social networks in Africa's largest and most turbulent economy. Through an ethnography of informal economic governance, this book shows how ties of ethnicity, class, gender and religion are used to restructure enterprise networks in response to contemporary economic challenges. Moving beyond primordialist interpretations of African culture, attention is drawn to the critical role of the state and the macro-economic policy environment in shaping trajectories of informal economic governance
ER  -