Youth between Participation and Exclusion

Youth between Participation and Exclusion

Urban Inequality, Informality and Precarity in Post-revolutionary Tunisia

Frische, Johannes

Brill

12/2024

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Notes on Transcription and Terminology??


Introduction: Entering a Contested Terrain??


1???Locating Global Contexts and Concepts??

?1?Core Issues of Urban Inequality across the North-South Divide


?2?The Right to the City: A Global Discourse and Its Local Implications


?3?Urban Spaces: Everyday Life and the Role of the State


?4?Urban Youth: Scopes of Action and Forms of Exclusion


?5?From the Informal Sector to Global Informalization


?6?Precarity and Precaritization


?7?Analytical Perspectives for the North African Context




2???Re-tracing Development in Tunisia: Root Causes of Economic and Spatial Inequities??

?1?Spatial Inequities, Social and Economic Cleavages


?2?Historical Roots of Urbanization


?3?Polarization in the Periphery of the Greater Tunis Region


?4?Spatial and Economic Inequality

?4.1?Small-Scale Economy and the Informal Sector??


?4.2?Internal and External Migration??


?4.3?Cross-border Trade in the Periphery??


?4.4?Urban Spaces: Markets and Street Trading in Tunis??




?5?Asymmetric Integration into Globalization Processes




3???Approaching the Field: Ettadhamen as a Suburban Area in Greater Tunis??

?1?On the Emergence of Ettadhamen: Informal Settlements and Restructuring


?2?Economic Dynamics and Spaces of Everyday Practice


?3?From Social Marginalization to Mobilization and Migration


?4?Methodology and Fieldwork Concerns

?4.1?Access to the Field??


?4.2?Analytical Approach: Reconstruction of Life Situations and Everyday Conditions??




?5?Researching Everyday Life in Structurally Disadvantaged Areas




4???Individual Life Situations (2012-2013): Informal and Precarious Work or Being Jobless??

?1?Contextualizing Politico-Institutional and Economic Conditions

?1.1?Background to the Flexibilization and Precaritization of Employment in Tunisia??


?1.2?Self-Employment and Microcredit Financing??




?2?The Situation of the Interviewees: Employed, Self-employed, Unemployed?


?3?Selected Case Studies (2012-13)

?3.1?Being Jobless: Causes of Economic Disintegration??


?3.2?Day Laborers and Street Vendors: Living from Hand to Mouth??


?3.3?Laboring in the Family Business: A Contained Workforce??


?3.4?Wage Labor: Gaining One's Livelihood in a Situation of Dependence??


?3.5?Self-employed Work: Autonomy Instead of Dependence???




?4?Analytical Perspectives

?4.1?Everyday Coping in the Here and Now -- Transitions into an Uncertain Future??


?4.2?Interdependencies between Informal and Precarious Work??


?4.3?Self-employment and Informal Trade as an Alternative to Wage Labor???


?4.4?Gaining Mobility despite Sociospatial Segregation???




?5?Solidarity and Individual Subsistence Strategies




5???Youth in Tunisia (2016): Precarious Living Conditions and Uncertain Prospects for the Future??

?1?Conceptualizing Transitional Phases: Waithood and Contained Youth


?2?The Economic Situation of Tunisian Youth


?3?Future Prospects in the Face of Precarity and Uncertainty


?4?An Excluded Generation?


?5?Conclusion: Youth as Agents of Change?




Conclusions: Joining the Dots and Looking toward the Future??

?1?Structural and Sociospatial Causes of Exclusion in the Urban Context of Tunisia


?2?Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Youth as a Precarious Living Situation


?3?Global Outlook: Political Economy Perspectives on Youth




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