TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stasik,Michael
TI  - Bus station hustle: transport and mobility in urban Ghana 
T2  - The International African Library
SN  - 9781009486651 (ebook)
AV  - HE5707.8.A6 S73 2025
U1  - 388.4/73 23/eng/20240411
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Bus terminals
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Ghana
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Bus lines
KW  - Informal sector (Economics)
KW  - Urban transportation
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2025); Introduction: in the hustle park -- From the lorry age to the age of hustle  -- Niche economy involution  -- Loading  -- Station rhythm enskilment  -- The labours of waiting  -- The valorisation of delay -- Conclusion: the hustle reloading; Open Access
N2  - Bus stations are among the most prominent sites of social and economic activity in Africa. Integral to transport, trade, and exchange over distance, they provide livelihoods for large numbers of people. Through a detailed ethnography of one of Ghana's busiest long-distance bus stations, Michael Stasik explores the dialectical relationship between the ways in which people make the station work and how the station shapes popular economic engagement and social life. Drawing on a dual understanding of 'hustle' as a distinct mode of economic activity and organisation, as well as a marker of complex and sometimes bewildering situations, Stasik challenges dominant views of transport work in urban Africa, especially those wedded to generic notions of 'informality'. Bus Station Hustle offers a nuanced anthropological perspective on the hands-on work in and the institutional workings of an infrastructural hub of mobility and exchange. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009486651
ER  -