Acknowledgements List of Illustration Abbreviations Notes on Transcription and Terminology Introduction: Entering a Contested Terrain 1 Locating Global Contexts and Concepts 1 Core Issues of Urban Inequality across the North-South Divide 2 The Right to the City: A Global Discourse and Its Local Implications 3 Urban Spaces: Everyday Life and the Role of the State 4 Urban Youth: Scopes of Action and Forms of Exclusion 5 From the Informal Sector to Global Informalization 6 Precarity and Precaritization 7 Analytical Perspectives for the North African Context 2 Re-tracing Development in Tunisia: Root Causes of Economic and Spatial Inequities 1 Spatial Inequities, Social and Economic Cleavages 2 Historical Roots of Urbanization 3 Polarization in the Periphery of the Greater Tunis Region 4 Spatial and Economic Inequality 4.1 Small-Scale Economy and the Informal Sector 4.2 Internal and External Migration 4.3 Cross-border Trade in the Periphery 4.4 Urban Spaces: Markets and Street Trading in Tunis 5 Asymmetric Integration into Globalization Processes 3 Approaching the Field: Ettadhamen as a Suburban Area in Greater Tunis 1 On the Emergence of Ettadhamen: Informal Settlements and Restructuring 2 Economic Dynamics and Spaces of Everyday Practice 3 From Social Marginalization to Mobilization and Migration 4 Methodology and Fieldwork Concerns 4.1 Access to the Field 4.2 Analytical Approach: Reconstruction of Life Situations and Everyday Conditions 5 Researching Everyday Life in Structurally Disadvantaged Areas 4 Individual Life Situations (2012-2013): Informal and Precarious Work or Being Jobless 1 Contextualizing Politico-Institutional and Economic Conditions 1.1 Background to the Flexibilization and Precaritization of Employment in Tunisia 1.

2 Self-Employment and Microcredit Financing 2 The Situation of the Interviewees: Employed, Self-employed, Unemployed? 3 Selected Case Studies (2012-13) 3.1 Being Jobless: Causes of Economic Disintegration 3.2 Day Laborers and Street Vendors: Living from Hand to Mouth 3.3 Laboring in the Family Business: A Contained Workforce 3.4 Wage Labor: Gaining One''s Livelihood in a Situation of Dependence 3.5 Self-employed Work: Autonomy Instead of Dependence? 4 Analytical Perspectives 4.1 Everyday Coping in the Here and Now -- Transitions into an Uncertain Future 4.2 Interdependencies between Informal and Precarious Work 4.

3 Self-employment and Informal Trade as an Alternative to Wage Labor? 4.4 Gaining Mobility despite Sociospatial Segregation? 5 Solidarity and Individual Subsistence Strategies 5 Youth in Tunisia (2016): Precarious Living Conditions and Uncertain Prospects for the Future 1 Conceptualizing Transitional Phases: Waithood and Contained Youth 2 The Economic Situation of Tunisian Youth 3 Future Prospects in the Face of Precarity and Uncertainty 4 An Excluded Generation? 5 Conclusion: Youth as Agents of Change? Conclusions: Joining the Dots and Looking toward the Future 1 Structural and Sociospatial Causes of Exclusion in the Urban Context of Tunisia 2 Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Youth as a Precarious Living Situation 3 Global Outlook: Political Economy Perspectives on Youth Bibliography Index.