Meagher, Kate
Dr Kate Meagher
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Experience keywords:
non-state governance; Nigeria; West Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; enterprise clusters; economic networks; civil society; informal economy; rural development; informal institutions; non-farm economy
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Kate Meagher has engaged in extensive empirical and theoretical research on the informal economy in rural and urban Africa, with a particular focus on Nigeria. Her current research interests include social networks and non-state governance in Africa, the politics of economic informality, enterprise clusters, vigilantism and organised crime, and new religious movements.
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Sectors and industries to which research relates:
Policy and Regulatory Bodies
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
Sub-Saharan Africa; West Africa; Nigeria
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Languages: French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]
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Media experience:
Radio
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The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.
Meagher, Kate (2013) The jobs crisis behind Nigeria's unrest. Current history, 112 (754). pp. 169-174. ISSN 0011-3530 Meagher, Kate (2012) The strength of weak states?: non-state security forces and hybrid governance in Africa. Development and change, 43 (5). pp. 1073-1101. ISSN 0012-155X Meagher, Kate (2012) Weber meets Godzilla: social networks and the spirit of capitalism in East Asia and Africa. Review of African political economy, 39 (132). pp. 261-278. ISSN 0305-6244 Meagher, Kate (2011) Disempowerment from below: informal enterprise and the limits of popular governance in Nigeria. In:4th European Conference on African Studies (15-18 June 2011 : Uppsala, Sweden). Meagher, Kate (2011) Informal economies and urban governance in Nigeria: popular empowerment or political exclusion? African studies review, 54 (2). pp. 47-72. ISSN 0002-0206 Meagher, Kate (2010) Social capital or social exclusion: social networks and informal manufacturing in Nigeria. In: Bryceson, D., (ed.) How Africa works: occupational change, identity and morality. Practical Action. ISBN 9781853396915 Meagher, Kate (2010) The politics of vulnerability: exit, voice and capture in three Nigerian informal manufacturing clusters. In: Lindell, Ilda, (ed.) Africa’s informal workers: collective agency, alliances and transnational organizing. Zed Books, London, UK. ISBN 9781848134515 Meagher, Kate (2010) Identity economics: social networks and the informal economy in Nigeria. James Currey, Suffolk, UK. ISBN 9781847010162 Meagher, Kate (2010) The tangled web of associational life: urban governance and the politics of popular livelihoods in Nigeria. Urban forum, 21 (3). pp. 299-313. ISSN 1015-3802 Meagher, Kate (2010) Networking for success: informal enterprise and popular associations in Nigeria. In: Harriss-White, Barbara and Heyer, Judith, (eds.) The comparative political economy of development: Africa and south Asia. Routledge, Oxford, UK, pp. 158-178. ISBN 9780415552882 Meagher, Kate (2010) The empowerment trap: gender, poverty and the informal economy in sub-Saharan Africa. In: Chant, Sylvia, (ed.) The international handbook of gender and poverty: concepts, research, policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, Gloucestershire, UK. ISBN 9781848443341 Meagher, Kate (2010) Weber meets Godzilla: social networks and the spirit of capitalism. In:Celebrating Gavin Williams (9-10 July 2010 : Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK). Meagher, Kate (2009) Culture agency and power: theoretical reflections on informal economic networks and political process. DIIS Working Papers, 2009:27. Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark Okonta, Ike and Meagher, Kate (2009) Legacies of Biafra: violence, identity and citizenship in Nigeria - introduction. Africa development, 34 (1). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0850-3907 Meagher, Kate (2009) The informalization of belonging: Igbo informal enterprise and national cohesion from below. Africa development, 34 (1). pp. 31-46. ISSN 0850-3907 Meagher, Kate (2008) Beyond the shadows: informal institutions and development in Africa - introduction. Afrika spectrum, 43 (1). ISSN 0002-0397 Meagher, Kate (2007) Manufacturing disorder: liberalization, informal enterprise and economic ‘ungovernance’ in African small firm clusters. Development and change, 38 (3). pp. 473-503. ISSN 0012-155X Meagher, Kate (2007) Hijacking civil society: the inside story of the Bakassi Boys vigilante group of south-eastern Nigeria. Journal of modern African studies, 45 (1). pp. 89-115. ISSN 1469-7777 Meagher, Kate (2006) Social capital, social liabilities, and political capital: social networks and informal manufacturing in Nigeria. African affairs, 105 (421). pp. 553-582. ISSN 0001-9909 Meagher, Kate (2006) Cultural primordialism and the post-structuralist imaginaire: plus ça change [review article]. Africa: the journal of the International African Institute, 76 (4). pp. 590-597. ISSN 0001-9720 Meagher, Kate (2005) Social capital or analytical liability?: social networks and African informal economies. Global networks, 5 (3). pp. 217-238. ISSN 1470-2266 Meagher, Kate (2003) A back door to globalisation?: structural adjustment, globalisation & transborder trade in west Africa. Review of African political economy, 30 (95). pp. 57-75. ISSN 0305-6244 Meagher, Kate (2001) The invasion of the opportunity snatchers: the rural-urban interface in northern Nigeria. Journal of contemporary African studies, 19 (1). pp. 39-54. ISSN 1469-9397
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