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Congratulations to Dr Tatiana Thieme, who has won one of two聽Progress in Human Geography聽prizes for the best paper published in the journal by an early career scholar in 2018.

The paper,聽, employs the concept of hustle to examine the uncertainty and accepted informalities that pervade the everyday life of youth in precarious urban environments. Hustle is presented as a localized but widespread condition of contemporary urbanism, emerging from the everyday experiences of uncertainty and insecurity associated with 鈥榣ife work鈥� outside the bounds of formal social institutions.

Tatiana鈥檚 research explores the nexus of entrepreneurial and makeshift urbanism found in African and European cities. She applies urban ethnographic approaches to engage with individuals and communities that are often cut off from formal institutional support, including youth, slum dwellers, ex-offenders and refugees. Through this, she seeks to document their everyday coping strategies, homegrown economic activities, street-oriented knowledge and affirmation narratives of struggle.

In response to the prize, Tatiana explains:

鈥�鈥淚 am especially grateful to many colleagues who listened to and commented on earlier draft versions of the paper, which is a 鈥榯hink piece鈥� for the monograph I am working on at the moment about Nairobi Hustle.鈥�

The co-winner of this year鈥檚 prize is Lizzie Richardson (Durham University), Tatiana鈥檚 friend and research collaborator on a project, 鈥楳aking work outside of prison鈥�, for her paper on 鈥樷��.