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The act of living : street life, marginality, and development in urban Ethiopia / Marco Di Nunzio.
LIBRA HN789.A93 D56 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Di Nunzio, Marco, 1984- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marginality, Social--Ethiopia--Addis Ababa.
- Marginality, Social.
- Street life--Ethiopia--Addis Ababa.
- Street life.
- Poor--Ethiopia--Addis Ababa.
- Poor.
- Informal sector (Economics)--Ethiopia--Addis Ababa.
- Informal sector (Economics).
- Ethnology.
- Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)--Social conditions.
- Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).
- Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)--Economic conditions.
- Ethnology--Ethiopia--Addis Ababa.
- Economic history.
- Social conditions.
- Ethiopia--Addis Ababa.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 245 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Explores why economic growth does not result in empowerment in Ethiopia, and how marginality is narrated and experienced in a time of promise"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Migrants, gentlemen and thugs
- A thug's life
- Donkeys with ashes
- Do not cross the red line
- Keep on hustlin'
- Life is a paradise
- The time of the bumpkins
- Embracing uncertainty.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Di Nunzio, Marco, 1984- author. Act of living
- ISBN:
- 9781501735127
- 1501735128
- 9781501736261
- 1501736264
- OCLC:
- 1055265166
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