Migrants and Masculinity in High-rise Nairobi: The Pressure of Being a Man in an African City - Couverture souple

Schmidt, Dr Mario

 
9781847013521: Migrants and Masculinity in High-rise Nairobi: The Pressure of Being a Man in an African City

Synopsis

Pipeline is a low-income estate high-rise tenement settlement of Nairobi that draws migrants hoping to kick-start careers but who repeatedly see their aspirations shattered. This book looks at how male migrants model their financial, physical, and spiritual well-being in three different masculine spaces of contemporary Nairobi. It explores how men create and participate in masculine spaces and create a sense of brotherhood to help them through economic and personal success and failure.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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