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SUMMARY:Performance\, Power and Place of the Hustle Economy in Nairobi\, K
 enya - Tatiana Thieme\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20140211T173000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Conceptualizations of small-scale\, self-employed work in low-
 income urban economies tend to offer apolitical\, individualistic notions 
 of entrepreneurship and focus especially on the enabling factors for (albe
 it frugal) innovation. The talk will offer an alternative interpretation o
 f self-employed work amongst the urban poor by examining the narratives of
  youth living in Nairobi slums whose everyday social and economic practice
 s are associated with “hustling.”\n\nIn this talk\, three particular s
 cenarios in which “hustling” takes place will be examined: Youth in th
 e largest slum of East Africa\, Kibera\, who become the spokespeople for t
 he urban poor to international NGOs and development donors and refer to NG
 O workshops as “feeding programs” where a free lunch and day’s wage 
 is given in exchange for attendance and “participation”\; Youth in Hur
 uma who establish opportunistic alliances with their constituency’s MP\,
  serving as grassroots political campaigners in exchange for one-off hardw
 are ‘gifts’ such as water tanks or public toilets to manage and use fo
 r income generation activities\; and youth across the city’s slum commun
 ities engaged in Taka ni pato (trash is cash) work responding critically t
 o the absence of municipal basic services and lack of employment opportuni
 ties through the under-utilized resource of waste. Mapping across these th
 ree kinds of “hustle” is the tenuous boundary between licit and illici
 t work\, stigmas associated with urban poverty and youth simultaneously\, 
 and temptations to engage in opportunistic crime.\n\n\n
LOCATION:Room SG2 of the Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, CB39DT\, 
 Cambridge
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