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Popular Cartographies: youthful imaginings of the global in the streets of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Popular Cartographies: youthful imaginings of the global in the streets of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania In post‐socialist Tanzania people rarely articulate economic disparity in terms of class. Instead idioms of space and place are employed to designate differences between the haves and have‐nots. The material presented in this paper was gathered during 1999‐2000 research among a group of poor urban youth struggling to make a living in the streets of the downtown business district of Dares Salaam. This location allows for an exploration of various themes related to labor, power, and the politics of development. This article attempts to unravel some of the complex relationships between contemporary processes of globalization and young peoples' efforts to make meaningful lives for themselves (street youth, Dar es Salaam, globalization, informal labor, NGOs). http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Popular Cartographies: youthful imaginings of the global in the streets of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

MOYER, EILEEN
City & Society , Volume 16 (2) – Dec 1, 2004
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Copyright © 2004 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0893-0465
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10.1525/city.2004.16.2.117
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Abstract

In post‐socialist Tanzania people rarely articulate economic disparity in terms of class. Instead idioms of space and place are employed to designate differences between the haves and have‐nots. The material presented in this paper was gathered during 1999‐2000 research among a group of poor urban youth struggling to make a living in the streets of the downtown business district of Dares Salaam. This location allows for an exploration of various themes related to labor, power, and the politics of development. This article attempts to unravel some of the complex relationships between contemporary processes of globalization and young peoples' efforts to make meaningful lives for themselves (street youth, Dar es Salaam, globalization, informal labor, NGOs).

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City & Society – Wiley

Published: Dec 1, 2004

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