Resources and Opportunity: The Architecture of Livelihoods in Rural Kenya (Regnum Studies in Mission) - Softcover

Ontita, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506477402 ISBN 13: 9781506477404

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2012

Synopsis

Poor people in most rural areas of developing countries often improvise resources in unique ways in order to make a living. Resources and Oppurtunity 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 on, among other things, 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1506477402
• ISBN 13: 9781506477404
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328