Dr Mario Schmidt

Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi

The Pressure of being a Man in an African City

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines how young male migrants in urban Nairobi navigate the tension between expectations of success and repetitive failure.

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Produktdetails

• Making & Remaking the African City: Studies in Urban Africa
• Verlag: James Currey
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 232mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9781847013521
• ISBN-10: 184701352X
• Artikelnr.: 68468130

Autorenporträt

MARIO SCHMIDT is a senior research specialist at the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics in Nairobi and an associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale). Apart from exploring notions of masculinity among rural-urban migrants, he is interested in the effects of evidence-based development aid interventions across East Africa and the epistemological and ethical foundations of the behavioral sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction
Part 1: Experiencing Pressure 1. The History and Infrastructure of an
Aspirational Estate 2. Economic Pressure and the Expectation of Success 3.
Romantic Responsibilities and Marital Mistrust Part 2: Evading Pressure 4.
Investing in Male Sociality and Wasteful Masculinity 5. Lifting Weights and
the Performance of Brotherhood 6. Masculinity Consultants and the Threat of
Men's Expendability Conclusion: Pipeline to Nowhere Bibliography Index