Addressing the 'Tragedy of Commons' by Creating Social Capital: Some Experiments and Experience with the Street Vendors in Orissa

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Ramana, D.V.
Conference:	Sustaining Commons: Sustaining Our Future, the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons
Location:	Hyderabad, India
Conf. Date:	January 10-14
Date:	2011
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7193
Sector:	Social Organization
Region:	Middle East & South Asia
Subject(s):	social capital action research tragedy of the commons
Abstract:	"The paper documents the journey of the researcher and a group of vendors and links it with the relevant theoretical underpinnings. The paper makes an effort to answer the following questions: How to conceptualize the social capital in the context of the street vending?; Can an institutional support play a role in strengthening the social capital?; Will social capital help in addressing the tragedy of common?"

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