ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book has provided a detailed analysis of the everyday life of the poor in Cameroon by showing how they attain social and economic goals through networks. Ensuring that relationships endure also entails developing tricks and other mechanisms of concealment. Tricks and technologies of concealment were ‘designed to render certain things less visible’. The Everyday life of the Poor has demonstrated the need to go beyond the economistic approach to studying the everyday life of the poor, which fails to sufficiently capture the complexities of their lived experience. This book has sought to show that there is an alternative approach to studying the everyday life of the poor in the Global South which focuses on how their social and economic needs are met through the intermingling of strong, weak, and disposable ties and cultural factors with personal economic action.
