de heer E.G. Ontita : "Creativity in Everyday Practice. Resources and livelihoods in Nyamira, Kenya"


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28 mrt 2007 13:30

Onderdeel: Wageningen Universiteit

Locatie: Aula, gebouw 362, Gen. Foulkesweg 1, Wageningen

Organisatie: Wageningen Universiteit

Promotor: prof.dr. L.E. Visser (Rurale ontwikkelingssociologie)

Co-Promotor: Dr. P.G.M. Hebinck, Dr. M. Omosa (University of Nairobi, Kenia)

The thesis is located in the livelihoods debate, developing a deeper understanding of rural resource creation and use to earn a living. It goes beyond the livelihood approaches that perceive resources from a narrow and rigid materialist viewpoint as capitals/assets whose accessibility is externally determined. The livelihood approaches apply a structuralist perspective to explain livelihood change. In contrast this thesis goes beyond these structural understandings and interpretations to capture both the material and non-material aspects of resources. It takes a broader and more flexible view of resources as co-produced by actors in league with others in social-networks and with ‘nature’. It discusses resource creation and utilisation to earn a living as a multifaceted, complex and contested process; focuses on the social embeddedness of the process and the centrality of the dialectical nexus between landscape and livelihood. Methodologically the ‘household debate’ goes beyond traditional geographical definitions to its virtual nature.

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