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Gender Fictions and Gender Tensions Involving “Traditional” Asante Market Women.African Studies Quarterly This paper analyses the changing relations between organised women market traders and rulers in a West African context, from a distant past... Read More
Governing urbanization and the New Urbanization Plan in China This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. Read More
Capitalism and the Common Man: Peasants and Petty Production in Africa and South AsiaAgrarian South: Journal of Political Economy Abstract: In 1976, the political sociologist of Africa, Gavin Williams, controversially ‘took the part of peasants’ in an essay, the critique... Read More
Actor networks and innovation activities among rural enterprises in a South African locality Abstract: Rural localities are often viewed as too remote, sparsely populated and poor in critical resources needed for them to be innovation... Read More
Crowding in Care, Security and Micro-enterprise Formation: Revisiting the Role of the State in Poverty Reduction, and in Development Read More
