Steen-Johnsen, Tale (2001) Valuable relations? Social capital in the urban informal fisheries sector, Kenya. Centre for Development and the Environment.
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This dissertation addresses how agents in the urban informal sector use social capital to access scarce resources. Social capital denotes network-based social bonds that might facilitate access to a resource. The subjects operate in Obunga, an informal urban settlement situated on the Kenyan shores of Lake Victoria. These agents, called wuontich, specialise in frying the fish skeletons which remain after the processing of Nile perch by modern processing plants. The skeletons are sold to inland markets where they are highly valued as food for human consumption. To obtain skeletons for their micro-enterprises, the wuontich need personal contact with middlemen, called jawero, who have a monopoly on the distribution of skeletons from the processing plants to the informal fish-processing field.
| Item Type: | Documents |
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| Class Number: | 300.VAL001 |
| Keywords: | Kenya, Africa, Social Capital, Fisheries |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Chitti Babu ICSF |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2022 05:50 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2022 05:50 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/8685 |
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