The next GIGA Seminar in Socio-Economics will take place on

Thursday, 24th May 2012
at 1.30 p.m.
in room 465.

Dr Kate Meagher will give a talk about “Disempowerment from Below: Informal Enterprise Networks and the Limits of Political Voice in Nigeria”.

Kate Meagher is a researcher at The London School of Economics and Political Science at the Department of International Development. 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. (http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/k.meagher@lse.ac.uk)