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Engaging With African Informal Economies

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ID2727962
AuthorsFrances Cleaver (0000-0002-4208-1211, King's College London), Tom Franks (0000-0001-8157-6287), Faustin Maganga (0000-0002-3188-6989, University of Dar es Salaam), Kurt Hall
Year2013
Volume56
Issue3
Pages165-189
Publication date2013-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAfrican Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/asr.2013.84
OpenAlexW2113353922
LanguageEN
Citations received20
References cited39

This article furthers our understanding of how state and citizens interact to produce local institutions and examines the effects of these processes. It brings critical institutional theory into engagement with ideas about everyday governance to analyze how hybrid arrangements are formed through bricolage. Such a perspective helps us to understand governance arrangements as both negotiated and structured, benefiting some and disadvantaging others. To explore these points the article tracks the evolution of the Sungusungu, a hybrid pastoralist security institution in the Usangu Plains, Tanzania. It also considers the wider implications of such hybrid arrangements for livelihoods, social inclusion, distributive justice, and citizenship

Bricolage · Citizenship · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economics · Informal sector · Institution · Livelihood · Management · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Precarity · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · Global and Cross-Cultural Management · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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