Youth between Participation and Exclusion : Urban Inequality, Informality and Precarity in Post-revolutionary Tunisia /
Frische, Johannes,
Youth between Participation and Exclusion : Urban Inequality, Informality and Precarity in Post-revolutionary Tunisia / Urban Inequality, Informality and Precarity in Post-revolutionary Tunisia Johannes Frische. - 1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations. - Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025 Youth in a Globalizing World ; 23 . - Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025. Youth in a Globalizing World ; 23. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- List of Illustration -- Abbreviations -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
While the role of youth in the Arab Spring is acknowledged, their living conditions remain critical. Johannes Frische offers a fresh perspective on Tunisia's post-revolutionary transition by examining employment and income strategies in disadvantaged urban areas. He reveals a grim reality: young people face structural unemployment, informality, and precariousness. Focusing on the low-income suburb of Ettadhamen in Greater Tunis, he highlights the impact of sociospatial segregation, economic stagnation, and social marginalization. This close-up on youth's everyday life challenges the notion of youth as a simple transitional phase, instead exposing their ongoing struggle with precarity and exclusion.
English
9789004712423
10.1163/9789004712423 DOI
Geography.
Social Sciences.
HN65
309.173
Youth between Participation and Exclusion : Urban Inequality, Informality and Precarity in Post-revolutionary Tunisia / Urban Inequality, Informality and Precarity in Post-revolutionary Tunisia Johannes Frische. - 1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations. - Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025 Youth in a Globalizing World ; 23 . - Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025. Youth in a Globalizing World ; 23. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- List of Illustration -- Abbreviations -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
While the role of youth in the Arab Spring is acknowledged, their living conditions remain critical. Johannes Frische offers a fresh perspective on Tunisia's post-revolutionary transition by examining employment and income strategies in disadvantaged urban areas. He reveals a grim reality: young people face structural unemployment, informality, and precariousness. Focusing on the low-income suburb of Ettadhamen in Greater Tunis, he highlights the impact of sociospatial segregation, economic stagnation, and social marginalization. This close-up on youth's everyday life challenges the notion of youth as a simple transitional phase, instead exposing their ongoing struggle with precarity and exclusion.
English
9789004712423
10.1163/9789004712423 DOI
Geography.
Social Sciences.
HN65
309.173