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Harnessing the ‘hustle’

  1. Harnessing the 'hustle': struggle, solidarities and narratives of work in Nairobi and beyond: Introduction
  2. Tatiana Thieme, Meghan E. Ference, Naomi van Stapele
  3. pp. 1-15
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  1. 'You will build me': Fiscal disobedience, reciprocity and the dangerous negotiations of redistribution on Nairobi's matatu
  2. Meghan E. Ference
  3. pp. 16-34
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  1. 'Youth are redrawing the map': Temporalities and terrains of the hustle economy in Mathare, Nairobi
  2. Tatiana Thieme
  3. pp. 35-56
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  1. Providing to belong: Masculinities, hustling and economic uncertainty in Nairobi 'ghettos'
  2. Naomi van Stapele
  3. pp. 57-76
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  1. Rhythms of the unemployed: Making art and making do through spoken word in Kisumu, Kenya
  2. Frederik Unseld
  3. pp. 77-94
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  1. 'We are taught to act': Hustling on the move in Kampala and Nairobi
  2. William Monteith, George Mirembe
  3. pp. 95-112
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Reviews of books: debating the ‘hustle’

Marco Di Nunzio, The Act of Living: street life, marginality, and development in urban Ethiopia

  1. The Act of Living: street life, marginality, and development in urban Ethiopia by Marco Di Nunzio (review)
  2. Joost Beuving
  3. pp. 113-114
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  1. The Act of Living: street life, marginality, and development in urban Ethiopia by Marco Di Nunzio (review)
  2. Sarah Howard
  3. pp. 114-116
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  1. The Act of Living: street life, marginality, and development in urban Ethiopia by Marco Di Nunzio (review)
  2. Hannah J. Dawson
  3. pp. 116-117
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  1. Caught in The Act of Living: socialities, history and positionality in an ethnography of Addis Ababa's street life– a response
  2. Marco Di Nunzio
  3. pp. 117-120
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Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, African Markets and the Utu-ubuntu Business Model: a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi

  1. African Markets and the Utu-ubuntu Business Model: a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi by Mary Njeri Kinyanjui (review)
  2. Alexis Malefakis
  3. pp. 120-122
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  1. African Markets and the Utu-ubuntu Business Model: a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi by Mary Njeri Kinyanjui (review)
  2. Lynsey Farrell
  3. pp. 122-123
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  1. African Markets and the Utu-ubuntu Business Model: a perspective on economic informality in Nairobi by Mary Njeri Kinyanjui (review)
  2. William Monteith
  3. pp. 123-125
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  1. Response by the author
  2. Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
  3. pp. 125-127
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AbdouMaliq Simone, Improvised Lives: rhythms of endurance in an urban South

  1. Improvised Lives: rhythms of endurance in an urban South by AbdouMaliq Simone (review)
  2. David Pratten
  3. pp. 127-128
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  1. Improvised Lives: rhythms of endurance in an urban South by AbdouMaliq Simone (review)
  2. Mwenda Ntarangwi
  3. pp. 129-130
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  1. Improvised Lives: rhythms of endurance in an urban South by AbdouMaliq Simone (review)
  2. Rose Marie Beck
  3. pp. 130-132
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  1. Is it hustling this world, or something else? Reflections on three engagements with Improvised Lives
  2. AbdouMaliq Simone
  3. pp. 132-134
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Socio-cultural meanings in Kenya

  1. 'Under construction': Everyday anxieties and the proliferating social meanings of China in Kenya
  2. Wangui Kimari
  3. pp. 135-152
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  1. 'Madmen, womanizers, and thieves': Moral disorder and the cultural text of refugee encampment in Kenya
  2. Hanno Brankamp
  3. pp. 153-176
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