LEADER 04213nam 22005415 450 001 9910761401003321 005 20240306014423.0 010 $a1-80543-204-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781805432043 035 $a(CKB)29092631200041 035 $a(DE-B1597)677282 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781805432043 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929092631200041 100 $a20240306h20242024 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMigrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi $eThe Pressure of being a Man in an African City /$fMario Schmidt 210 1$aWoodbridge, Suffolk : $cBoydell and Brewer, $d[2024] 210 4$d©2024 215 $a1 online resource (184 p.) $c4 maps and 10 b/w illus 225 0 $aMaking & Remaking the African City: Studies in Urban 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tList of Abbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $tPART 1: EXPERIENCING PRESSURE -- $t1. The History and Infrastructure of an Aspirational Estate -- $t2. Economic Pressure and the Expectation of Success -- $t3. Romantic Responsibilities and Marital Mistrust -- $tPART 2: EVADING PRESSURE -- $t4. Investing in Male Sociality and Wasteful Masculinity -- $t5. Lifting Weights and the Performance of Brotherhood -- $t6. Masculinity Consultants and the Threat of Men's Expendability -- $tConclusion: Pipeline to Nowhere -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aPipeline is a low-income, high-rise-tenement settlement in Nairobi's marginalized East and one of sub-Saharan Africa's most densely populated estates. An aspirational place where fleeting forms of capitalist consumption reassure migrants of an upward trajectory, it is also a place where their ambitions of long-term economic success and stable romantic relationships are routinely thwarted. This book explores how men who migrate to Nairobi from Western Kenya navigate this tension that is generated by the contrast between their view of Pipeline as a launching pad for their personal and professional careers and the fact that they face constant economic, romantic, and personal backlashes. Drawing on over two years of fieldwork, the book reveals that many male migrants design their future on trajectories of personal and economic growth but have to adjust or indefinitely postpone their plans once they arrive in Kenya's capital. Under the pressure to succeed from romantic partners, spouses, rural kin, and children, they create and participate in homosocial spaces where a sense of brotherhood emerges and their experience of pressure is attenuated. Alongside a deep ethnographic exploration of how male migrants model their financial, physical, and mental well-being in three different masculine spaces - an ethnically homogenous investment group, an interethnic gym, and the semi-digital sphere of self-help books, workshops, and motivational trainings on man- and fatherhood - this book brings a new perspective to our understanding of urban African life and the nature of masculinity. This title is available under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND, with funding from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Open Access Fund and the German Research Foundation. 606 $aImmigrants$zKenya$zNairobi$xPsychology 606 $aMasculinity$zKenya$zNairobi 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social$2bisacsh 610 $aAfrican Gender Studies. 610 $aAfrican Masculinity. 610 $aAfrican Migration. 610 $aAfrican Society. 610 $aGender Roles in Africa. 610 $aGender Roles in East Africa. 610 $aMale Migrants in Nairobi. 610 $aMigrants in East Africa. 615 0$aImmigrants$xPsychology. 615 0$aMasculinity 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. 676 $a155.3/32 700 $aSchmidt$b Mario, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0860924 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910761401003321 996 $aMigrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi$94148061 997 $aUNINA