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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series List
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Creolizing the Hustle: Social History of a Concept
  10. 2. Self-Help City: The Making of a Hustling Class
  11. 3. Straight Outta Dumpsite: Youth-Led Waste Economy
  12. 4. The Business and Politics of Shit: Sanitation Entrepreneurship
  13. 5. Ghetto Gal: Gender, Life, and Work at the Urban Margins
  14. 6. Stayers and Leavers: Building Up the Breakdown
  15. 7. Storytellers Performing the Hustle: Hip-Hop, Street Tours, and Digital Narrations
  16. Conclusion: Hustle Nation?
  17. Afterword: A Response
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index
  22. Series List Continued (2 of 2)
  23. Author Biographies

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The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges University College London for funding the open access fees for this work.

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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