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.

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