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Youth between Participation and Exclusion

Urban Inequality, Informality and Precarity in Post-revolutionary Tunisia

Johannes Frische (Autor)

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260 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-70870-9 (ISBN)

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Positioned at the intersection of Sociology, Urban Studies, Youth Studies, and Middle East Studies, Youth between Participation and Exclusion addresses key debates on urban inequality, informality, and precarity across the north-south divide, with a particular focus on urban youth in the context of Tunisia’s post-revolutionary transition.

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.

After studying Middle East Studies, History, and Religious Studies at the University of Leipzig, Johannes Frische earned his doctorate in Globalization Research in 2021. His scientific interests, focusing on North Africa and the Middle East, include Youth Studies, Urban Studies, Sociology, and Migration. He has undertaken several study and research visits to Tunisia, Morocco, and Syria.

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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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Erscheinungsdatum	18.03.2025
Reihe/Serie	Youth in a Globalizing World ; 23
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	561 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-70870-7 / 9004708707
ISBN-13	978-90-04-70870-9 / 9789004708709
Zustand	Neuware