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City Seminar - 11 February 2014 - Performance, Power and Place of the Hustle Economy in Nairobi, Kenya
Tatiana Thieme (University of Cambridge) AbstractConceptualizations 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 (albeit frugal) innovation. The talk will offer an alternative interpretation of self-employed work amongst the urban poor by examining the narratives of youth living in Nairobi slums whose everyday social and economic practices are associated with “hustling.”In this talk, three particular scenarios in which “hustling” takes place will be examined: Youth in the largest slum of East Africa, Kibera, who become the spokespeople for the urban poor to international NGOs and development donors and refer to NGO workshops as “feeding programs” where a free lunch and day’s wage is given in exchange for attendance and “participation”; Youth in Huruma who establish opportunistic alliances with their constituency’s MP, serving as grassroots po
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Tatiana Thieme (University of Cambridge) AbstractConceptualizations 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 (albeit frugal) innovation. The talk will offer an alternative interpretation of self-employed work amongst the urban poor by examining the narratives of youth living in Nairobi slums whose everyday social and economic practices are associated with “hustling.”In this talk, three particular scenarios in which “hustling” takes place will be examined: Youth in the largest slum of East Africa, Kibera, who become the spokespeople for the urban poor to international NGOs and development donors and refer to NGO workshops as “feeding programs” where a free lunch and day’s wage is given in exchange for attendance and “participation”; Youth in Huruma who establish opportunistic alliances with their constituency’s MP, serving as grassroots po
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