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About this book
Exploring hustle as a social, cultural, and economic phenomenon in contemporary Nairobi
In Nairobi’s underserved neighborhoods, “hustle” has emerged as both a vital survival strategy and a way of life for youth. Exploring the multiple meanings and manifestations of the hustle economy across different scenarios of provisioning, distribution, exchange, learning, and mobilizing, Hustle Urbanism draws on more than a decade of ethnographic engagement to center the logics, perspectives, and inventive strategies of a group of youth who constantly navigate job scarcity, inadequate basic services, and climate-induced harms.
Tatiana Thieme shows how young people develop tools of resistance against the legacies of colonial violence and uneven urban development while carving out spaces of opportunity for themselves and their peers. The stories she includes bring thick ethnographic detail and longitudinal perspective to the lives and livelihoods of youth whose diverse skill sets and knowledges span from circular economies and eco-activism to hip hop and local leadership. Filling a significant gap in both existing scholarship and popular discussion, Hustle Urbanism offers critical theorization of precarious urban environments and the affirmative modes of making life work in the city against the odds.
While Thieme cautions against fetishizing hustle as a form of social and economic uplift, she calls for a greater recognition of the ingenuity and skill involved in hustle urbanism, arguing that studying hustle narratives and practices opens up timely empirical and theoretical questions about overlapping urban struggles and possibilities that coexist in the everyday city.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Globalization and Community Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Creolizing the Hustle: Social History of a Concept
- Chapter 2. Self-Help City: The Making of a Hustling Class
- Chapter 3. Straight Outta Dumpsite: Youth-Led Waste Economy
- Chapter 4. The Business and Politics of Shit: Sanitation Entrepreneurship
- Chapter 5. Ghetto Gal: Gender, Life, and Work at the Urban Margins
- Chapter 6. Stayers and Leavers: Building Up the Breakdown
- Chapter 7. Storytellers Performing the Hustle: Hip-Hop, Street Tours, and Digital Narrations
- Conclusion: Hustle Nation?
- Afterword: A Response
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series Page Continued
- Author Biographies