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Author Di Nunzio, Marco, 1984- author.

Title The act of living : street life, marginality, and development in urban Ethiopia / Marco Di Nunzio
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 245 pages)
Contents Migrants, gentlemen and thugs -- A thug's life -- Do not cross the red line -- Keep on hustlin' -- Life is a paradise -- The time of the bumpkins -- Embracing uncertainty
Summary "Explores why economic growth does not result in empowerment in Ethiopia, and how marginality is narrated and experienced in a time of promise"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 01, 2020)
Subject Marginality, Social -- Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa
Street life -- Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa
Poor -- Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa
Informal sector (Economics) -- Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa
Ethnology -- Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
HISTORY -- Africa -- East.
Economic history
Ethnology
Informal sector (Economics)
Marginality, Social
Poor
Social conditions
Street life
SUBJECT Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) -- Social conditions
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) -- Economic conditions
Subject Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018051959
ISBN 9781501735134
1501735136
9781501735530
1501735535