Abstract This article examines the temporalities and terrains of the home-grown hustle economy of Mathare, one of the oldest and largest informal settlements in Nairobi. It builds on my previous work mobilizing the notion of ‘hustle’ to ground the narratives of struggle, opportunity and place-making expressed by youth whose livelihood strategies have centred around neighbourhood-based informal waste labour in order to assert claims to their local environment. Drawing on three ethnographic portraits and over a decade of longitudinal ethnographic research, the article shows how hustling connects to and evolves with particular generational and gendered identities, revealing the shifting demands on ‘older’ versus ‘younger’ youth. As everyday lives are mired in constant uncertainty, youth occupy a ‘precarious present’, caught in a state of suspension but also well versed in adapting to adversity and shaping local politics of provisioning in the absence of formal structures of support. The article sheds light on local logics of wealth redistribution among youth who belong to the same neighbourhood but whose claims to particular resources shift over time. The article demonstrates how hustling in Mathare sits at the nexus of agentive economic, environmental, political and social struggles, as youth on the urban periphery manage waste in their neighbourhoods to negotiate their place but also their time in the city.

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“青年正在重新绘制地图”：内罗毕马萨雷喧嚣经济的时间和地形

摘要 本文考察了马萨雷（内罗毕最古老和最大的非正式定居点之一）本土喧嚣经济的时间和地形。它建立在我之前的工作基础上，利用“喧嚣”的概念为青年表达的斗争、机会和场所营造的叙事奠定基础，他们的生计策略以社区为基础的非正规废弃劳动力为中心，以维护对当地环境的要求。这篇文章借鉴了三幅民族志肖像和十多年的纵向民族志研究，展示了忙碌如何与特定的代际和性别身份联系并演变，揭示了对“年长”与“年轻”青年的需求转变。由于日常生活陷入不断的不确定性，青年占据了“不稳定的现在”，陷入停顿状态，但也精通在缺乏正式支持结构的情况下适应逆境和塑造当地供应政治。这篇文章阐明了属于同一社区但他们对特定资源的要求随着时间而改变的年轻人之间财富再分配的地方逻辑。这篇文章展示了马萨雷的喧嚣如何成为代理经济、环境、政治和社会斗争的纽带，因为城市边缘的青年管理社区的垃圾，以协商他们在城市中的位置和时间。这篇文章阐明了属于同一社区但他们对特定资源的要求随着时间而改变的年轻人之间财富再分配的地方逻辑。这篇文章展示了马萨雷的喧嚣如何成为代理经济、环境、政治和社会斗争的纽带，因为城市边缘的青年管理社区的垃圾，以协商他们在城市中的位置和时间。这篇文章阐明了属于同一社区但他们对特定资源的要求随着时间而改变的年轻人之间财富再分配的地方逻辑。这篇文章展示了马萨雷的喧嚣如何成为代理经济、环境、政治和社会斗争的纽带，因为城市边缘的青年管理他们社区的垃圾以协商他们在城市中的位置和时间。