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Portions of chapter 3 are adapted from “The ‘Hustle’ amongst Youth Entrepreneurs in Mathare’s Informal Waste Economy,” Journal of Eastern African Studies 7, no. 3 (2013): 389–412, http://wwww.tandfonline.com/. Portions of chapter 4 are adapted from “Turning Hustlers into Entrepreneurs, and Social Needs into Market Demands: Corporate–Community Encounters in Nairobi, Kenya,” Geoforum 59 (2015): 228–39. Portions of chapter 5 are adapted from “‘The Ghetto Will Always Be My Living Room’: Hustling and Belonging in Nairobi Slums,” in Rethinking Life at the Margins: The Assemblage of Contexts, Subjects, and Politics, ed. Michele Lancione (Routledge, 2016). Portions of chapter 6 are adapted from “‘Youth Are Redrawing the Map’: Temporalities and Terrains of the Hustle Economy in Mathare, Nairobi,” special issue of Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute 91, no. 1 (2021): 35–56.

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