Social Networks in Urban Nigeria
Kate Meagher takes a fresh look at the informal economy of an African city by looking at market structures as a product of social networks that need to be approached from an ethnological and historic perspective. Analyzing the small manufacturing firms of the shoe and garment industry in the southe...
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Journal of Urban Research
2026
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Περίληψη: | Kate Meagher takes a fresh look at the informal economy of an African city by looking at market structures as a product of social networks that need to be approached from an ethnological and historic perspective. Analyzing the small manufacturing firms of the shoe and garment industry in the southeastern Nigerian town of Aba, she notes that social networks provide a clearer framework for understanding unofficial forms of economic organization than the concept of informality. Informality, she... |
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