Hope Is Cut

Daniel Mains is Wick Cary Assistant Professor of Honors at the University of Oklahoma.

Series Editors’ Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Youth, Hope, Stratification, and Time

1 The Historical and Cultural Roots of Unemployment and Stratification in Urban Ethiopia

2 Imagining Hopeful Futures through Khat and Film

3 “We Live Like Chickens; We Are Just Eating and Sleeping”: Progress, Education, and the Temporal Struggles of Young Men

4 Working toward Hope: Youth Unemployment, Occupational Status, and Values

5 Hopeful Exchanges: Reciprocity and Changing Dimensions of Urban Stratification

6 Spatial Fixes to Temporal Problems: Migration, Social Relationships, and Work

Conclusion: Sustaining Hope in the Present and the Future

notes

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index