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ASR FORUM: ENGAGING WITH AFRICAN INFORMAL ECONOMIES: SOCIAL INCLUSION OR ADVERSE INCORPORATION?

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2013

Kate Meagher  and
Ilda Lindell
Kate Meagher
Affiliation:
Kate Meagher is an associate professor in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics. She has published widely on African informal economies, including Identity Economics: Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Nigeria (James Currey, 2010) and “The Strength of Weak States? Non-State Security Forces and Hybrid Governance in Africa” (Development and Change 43 [5], 2012). E-mail: k.meagher@lse.ac.uk
Ilda Lindell
Affiliation:
Ilda Lindell is an associate professor in the Department of Human Geography at Stockholm University. Her work has focused mainly on the politics of informality in urban Africa. Her publications include the edited book Africa’s Informal Workers: Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa (Zed, 2010) and articles in Urban Studies, Global Networks, the Third World Quarterly, the Journal of Southern African Studies, and Geografiska Annaler. E-mail: ilda.lindell@humangeo.su.se
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ASR FORUM: ENGAGING WITH AFRICAN INFORMAL ECONOMIES: SOCIAL INCLUSION OR ADVERSE INCORPORATION?
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African Studies Review , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , December 2013 , pp. 57 - 76
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