Frontcover; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES & TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; 1 Introduction; 2 Beyond the Cultural Turn; 3 Oracles, Secret Societies & Hometown Identities; 4 Unleashing Popular Entrepreneurship; 5 The Scramble for Weak Ties; 6 Negotiating the Web of Associational Life; 7 Collective Efficiency or Cutthroat Cooperation?; 8 Informality, Cliental Networks & Vigilantes; 9 Missing Link or Missed Opportunity?; EPILOGUE; APPENDICES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Backcover
Summary
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 informa
