Apartheid : South Africa
Apartheid : South Africa
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种族隔离：南非
DOI：
10.1080/17531055.2013.770678
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发表时间：
1994
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
M. Montgomery
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文献类型：
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作者：
M. Associates;Vision Tv;O. Gjerstad;P. Flemington;L. Rampen;F. Macdonald;M. Montgomery
本文考察了在内罗毕最大和最古老的非正式住区之一玛萨雷生活和经营的非正式废物管理部门的青年的替代经济战略。这些年轻人在非正式的废物经济中对位置和工作的表达不断地与“卖命”的提及纠缠在一起，这反映了三个意义领域：卖命是一种“最后手段”的生存机制；“谋生策略”和风险管理；而“喧嚣”则是对生活在城市贫困中的年轻人的垃圾管理实践的争论。基于15个月的人种学研究，这篇文章探索并阐明了在马萨雷的非正式废物经济中“忙碌”的意义，在那里，其他形式的正式机构和社会服务都不存在或无法获得，在创业、机会主义团体犯罪和“无所事事”之间的选择是年轻人日常奋斗的组成部分。
This article examines the alternative economic strategies of youth in the informal waste management sector living and operating within one of Nairobi's largest and oldest informal settlements, Mathare. These youths' expressions of place and work within the informal waste economy are continuously entangled in references to “hustling” that reflect three spheres of meaning:hustleas a “last resort” survival mechanism;hustleas a “livelihood strategy” and risk management; and “hustle” as the contestations that cross-cut waste management practices amongst youth living in urban poverty. Based on 15 months of ethnographic research, the article explores and articulates the meaning of “hustling” within Mathare's informal waste economy where other forms of formal institutions and social services are otherwise absent or inaccessible, and where the choices between entrepreneurship, opportunistic group crime and “idling” are integral to youth's daily struggle.