{"product_id":"hustle-urbanism-making-life-work-in-nairobi-hardback-9781517917982","title":"Hustle Urbanism; Making Life Work in Nairobi (Hardback) 9781517917982","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHustle Urbanism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMaking Life Work in Nairobi\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTatiana Thieme (Author), Edward Kahuthia Murimi (Afterword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517917982\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 March 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages, 10 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"This book is ethnography at its best: Tatiana Thieme writes from years of deep relationships, twisting and turning ‘hustle’ to frame and reframe celebrations, criticisms, joy, frustration, hope, and possibilities associated with the term. Care-filled words and sketches vividly remind us of partiality and moral ambiguity yet affirm the value of thinking with Nairobians to make sense of ever-changing norms and practices of work and belonging.\"-Mary Lawhon, author of \u003ci\u003eMaking Urban Theory: Learning and Unlearning through Southern Cities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"One of the biggest puzzles at the heart of emergent forms of urbanism in African cities pertains to the lifeworlds, practices, and dispositions of young people forced to grow up outside of the prospect of formal employment and social mobility but immersed in a digital era. \u003ci\u003eHustle Urbanism\u003c\/i\u003e provides a compelling perspective on this fundamental question through vivid prose, astute yet unsentimental analysis, and a compassionate form of scholarship that one can only admire. A must-read for any curious urbanist and practitioner.\"-Edgar Pieterse, founding director, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExploring hustle as a social, cultural, and economic phenomenon in contemporary Nairobi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eHustle Urbanism\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eHustle Urbanism\u003c\/i\u003e offers critical theorization of precarious urban environments and the affirmative modes of making life work in the city against the odds. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1. Creolizing the Hustle: Social History of a Concept \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 2. Self-Help City: The Making of a Hustling Class \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 3. Straight Outta Dumpsite: Youth-Led Waste Economy \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 4. The Business and Politics of Shit: Sanitation Entrepreneurship \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 5. Ghetto Gal: Gender, Life, and Work at the Urban Margins \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 6. Stayers and Leavers: Building Up the Breakdown \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 7. Storytellers Performing the Hustle: Hip-Hop, Street Tours, and Digital Narrations \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Conclusion: Hustle Nation? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Afterword: A Response \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Edward Kahuthia Murimi \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735245254936,"sku":"9781517917982","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/hustle-urbanism-making-life-work-in-nairobi-hardback-9781517917982","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}