Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-319) and indexes

Introduction: moving into Sengeta -- A historical overview of the Nyamira landscape -- Resources and livelihood: a theoretical mapping -- Methodological approach -- Smallholder tea farming and livelihood -- Everyday dealings in smallholder tea markets: Soko Huru, Mashabiki and 'ghost farmers' -- Does deagrarianisation mean moving permanently away from agriculutre? -- Livelihood diversification -- Lifestyles and the search for social security in everyday life -- Re-defining resources in everyday practice -- Resources and livelihoods: looking forward

"[This book] takes the view that resources are dynamic and fluid, arguing that villagers co-produce them through redefinition and renaming in everyday practice, and use them in diverse ways. The book focuses inter alia on ordinary social activities to bring out people's creativity in locating, redesigning and embracing livelihood opportunites in processes anchored in social relationships that span local, national, regional and international borders. The book uniquely brings out the respective tensions between agency and structure, locality and globality in livelihood construction in rural Kenya."--From back cover