Thieme, TA;
(2018)
The Hustle Economy: Informality, Uncertainty and the Geographies of Getting By.
Progress in Human Geography
, 42
(4)
pp. 529-548.
10.1177/0309132517690039.
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Abstract
This article deploys the conceptual frame of hustle to examine the everyday dealings associated with uncertainty and accepted informalities that pervade realms of everyday life amongst youth in precarious urban geographies. In doing so, the discussion advances the theoretical linkages between prolonged pe- riods of ‘waithood’, alternative interpretations of work, and experiments within the everyday city more broadly. The article argues that the hustle economy is a localised but globally resonant condition of contemporary urbanism, coupling generative possibilities that emerge from everyday experiences of un- certainty and management of insecurities associated with ‘life work’ outside the bounds of normative social institutions.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Hustle Economy: Informality, Uncertainty and the Geographies of Getting By |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0309132517690039 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132517690039 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Hustle, youth, uncertainty, precarity, informal economy, waithood |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1549770 |
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