Globalized Urban Precarity in Berlin and Abidjan: Young Men and the Digital Economy

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Hannah Schilling

Globalized Urban Precarity in Berlin and Abidjan

Young Men and the Digital Economy

Hannah Schilling

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English

Manchester University Press
01 March 2023

Urban communities; Gender studies: men; Sociology; Social & cultural anthropology; Employment & unemployment

Globalised urban precarity in Berlin and Abidjan examines urban youth's practices of making do in digital economies, to understand how precarious working conditions reverberate in the coming of age in contemporary cities. Through a comparative analysis of the perspectives of young men working as air time sellers in Abidjan and food delivery riders and Berlin, the book provides innovative analytical lenses to understand urban inequalities against the backdrop of current digital urban developments. Essentially, this ethnography challenges the easy conflation of instability with insecurity, and overcomes the centrality of wage labour in research on urban livelihood, by looking at a broader set of economic practices and relational mechanisms. The analysis shows how accruing symbolic capital, a feel for the game in contexts of ambiguity and access to care are fundamental for explaining the unequal distribution of risks for socio-material insecurities in unstable work settings.

By: Hannah Schilling
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 417g
ISBN: 9781526162090
ISBN 10: 1526162091
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 01 March 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hannah Schilling is associated member and researcher at the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin

Reviews for Globalized Urban Precarity in Berlin and Abidjan: Young Men and the Digital Economy

'By exploring how changes in technological and informal work transform identity, social networks, and economic survival, Schilling's book represents an important contribution to urban sociology, labor studies, and the discourse on digital economies. For scholars in the fields of urban inequalities, labor dynamics, and the global digital economy, Globalized Urban Precarity in Berlin and Abidjan is an indispensable resource. Schilling’s comparative approach and detailed ethnographic method provides a powerful examination of how young urbanites become ensnared by the social and economic forces that shape their lives. While defining new modes of survival in today’s urban spaces, Schilling’s book is an important guide in understanding the ways in which digital transformations reshape work.' Duane Ebesu, Columbia University, African Studies Quarterly -- .