Dr Mario Schmidt

Broschiertes Buch

Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi

The Pressure of Being a Man in an African City

Beschreibung

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

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Making & Remaking the African City: Studies in Urban Africa
• Verlag: James Currey
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9781847013521
• ISBN-10: 184701352X
• Artikelnr.: 68468130