1.
Millar, K.: The precarious present: wageless labor and disrupted life in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Cultural Anthropology. 29, 32–53 (2014). https://doi.org/10.14506/ca29.1.04.
   
  
    2.
Roy, A.: Slumdog cities: rethinking subaltern urbanism. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 35, 223–238 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2011.01051.x.
   
  
    3.
Waite, L.: A place and space for a critical geography of precarity? Geography Compass. 3, 412–433 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00184.x.
   
  
    4.
Keith Hart: Informal income opportunities and urban employment in Ghana. The Journal of Modern African Studies. 11, 61–89 (1973).
   
  
    5.
Lewis, H., Dwyer, P., Hodkinson, S., Waite, L.: Hyper-precarious lives: migrants, work and forced labour in the global north. Progress in Human Geography. 39, 580–600 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132514548303.
   
  
    6.
Mckenzie, L.: Getting by: estates, class and culture in austerity Britain. The Policy Press, Bristol (2015).
   
  
    7.
Roy, A., Alsayyad, N.: Urban informality: transnational perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia. Lexington Books, Lanham, Md (2004).
   
  
    8.
Williams, C.C., Windebank, J., Nadin, S., Rodgers, P., Round, J., Windebank, J.: Mapping the social organization of labour in Moscow: beyond the formal/informal labour dualism. Sociological Research Online. 16, (2010).
   
  
    9.
Honwana, A.M., Boeck, F. de: Makers & breakers: children & youth in postcolonial Africa. James Currey, Oxford (2005).
   
  
    10.
Diouf, M.: Engaging postcolonial cultures: african youth and public space. African Studies Review. 46, 1–12 (2003). https://doi.org/10.2307/1514823.
   
  
    11.
Jones, G.A.: Hang about: young people’s frustrations at the state of progress. Dialogues in Human Geography. 2, 101–104 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1177/204382061200200112.
   
  
    12.
Craig Jeffrey: Fixing futures: educated unemployment through a North Indian lens. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 51, 182–211 (2009).
   
  
    13.
Honwana, A.M., Boeck, F. de: Makers & breakers: children & youth in postcolonial Africa. James Currey, Oxford (2005).
   
  
    14.
Honwana, A.M.: The time of youth: work, social change, and politics in Africa. Kumarian Press Pub, Sterling, Va (2012).
   
  
    15.
Africa in the hands of its youth -  Alcinda Honwana at TEDxEuston, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUGdT8_fw9s&feature=youtu.be, (12) AD.
   
  
    16.
BBC World Service - The Compass. Waithood: The Passage to Adulthood in Ghana, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p035w9bs.
   
  
    17.
BBC World Service - The Compass. Waithood: Trying to Grow Up in Italy and Spain, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p036hn57.
   
  
    18.
BBC World Service - The Compass. Waithood: Could Delaying Adulthood be a Good Thing?, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p037kkfh.
   
  
    19.
Appadurai, A.: Deep democracy: urban governmentality and the horizon of politics. Environment and Urbanization. 13, 23–43 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1177/095624780101300203.
   
  
    20.
Amin, A.: Lively Infrastructure. Theory, Culture & Society. 31, 137–161 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276414548490.
   
  
    21.
Vasudevan, A.: The makeshift city: Towards a global geography of squatting. Progress in Human Geography. 39, 338–359 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132514531471.
   
  
    22.
Bayat, A.: From `dangerous classes’ to `quiet rebels’: politics of the urban subaltern in the global south. International Sociology. 15, 533–557 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1177/026858000015003005.
   
  
    23.
Harvey, D.: Rebel cities: from the right to the city to the urban revolution. Verso, London (2012).
   
  
    24.
Tyler, I.: Revolting subjects: social abjection and resistance in neoliberal Britain. Zed Books, London (2013).
   
  
    25.
Chiu, C.: Informal management, interactive performance: street vendors and police in a Taipei night market. International Development Planning Review. 35, 335–352 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2013.24.
   
  
    26.
Hall, S.M.: Super-diverse street: a ‘trans-ethnography’ across migrant localities. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 38, 22–37 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2013.858175.
   
  
    27.
Jacobs, J.: The death and life of great American cities. Modern Library, New York (2011).
   
  
    28.
Ong, A., Collier, S.J.: Global assemblages: technology, politics, and ethics as anthropological problems. Blackwell, Malden, Mass (2005).
   
  
    29.
Ong, A., Collier, S.J. eds: Global Assemblages. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK (2007). https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470696569.
   
  
    30.
Duneier, M., Carter, O.: Sidewalk. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York (1999).
   
  
    31.
Hall, S.: City, street and citizen: the measure of the ordinary. Routledge, London (2012).
   
  
    32.
Hall, S.: City, street and citizen: the measure of the ordinary. Routledge, London (2012). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203118597.
   
  
    33.
Neuwirth, R.: Stealth of nations: the global rise of the informal economy. Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc, New York (2012).
   
  
    34.
Nitzsche, S.A., Grünzweig, W. eds: Hip-hop in Europe: cultural identities and transnational flows. LIT, Zürich (2013).
   
  
    35.
The new skate city: how skateboarders are joining the urban mainstream | Cities | The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/20/skate-city-skateboarders-developers-bans-defensive-architecture.
   
  
    36.
Ntarangwi, M.: East African hip hop: youth culture and globalization. University of Illinois Press, Urbana (2009).
   
  
    37.
Borden, I.: Skateboarding, space and the city: architecture and the body. Berg, Oxford (2001).
   
  
    38.
Weiss, B.: Street dreams and hip hop barbershops: global fantasy in urban Tanzania. Indiana University Press, Bloomington (2009).
   
  
    39.
Shroff, C., Utas, M., Vigh, H., Nordiska Afrikainstitutet: Navigating youth, generating adulthood: social becoming in an African context. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala (2006).
   
  
    40.
Shroff, C., Utas, M., Vigh, H., Nordiska Afrikainstitutet: Navigating youth, generating adulthood: social becoming in an African context, http://nai.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:275555/FULLTEXT02.pdf, (2006).
   
  
    41.
Vigh, Henrik: Youth mobilisation as social navigation. Reflections on the concept of dubriagem. Cadernos de Estudos Africanos. (2010).
   
  
    42.
Thieme, T.A.: The "hustle” amongst youth entrepreneurs in Mathare’s informal waste economy. Journal of Eastern African Studies. 7, 389–412 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2013.770678.
   
  
    43.
Jeffrey, C., Dyson, J.: Zigzag capitalism: youth entrepreneurship in the contemporary global South. Geoforum. 49, R1–R3 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.01.001.
   
  
    44.
Ash, A., Thrift, N.: Cultural-economy and cities. Progress in Human Geography. 31, 143–161 (2007). https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132507075361.
   
  
    45.
Richardson, L.: Performing the sharing economy. Geoforum. 67, 121–129 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.11.004.
   
  
    46.
Peers Inc, http://www.peersincorporated.com/.
   
  
    47.
Peck, J.: Bailing on Detroit: cities@manchester Blog, https://citiesmcr.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/bailing-on-detroit/.
   
  
    48.
How A Young Community Of Entrepreneurs Is Rebuilding Detroit, http://www.fastcompany.com/3007840/creative-conversations/how-young-community-entrepreneurs-rebuilding-detroit.
   
  
    49.
Attoh, K.A.: What kind of right is the right to the city? Progress in Human Geography. 35, 669–685 (2011). https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132510394706.
   
  
    50.
Harvey, D.: The right to the city. New Left Review. 53, (2008).
   
  
    51.
Pieterse, E.A., University of Cape Town. African Centre for Cities: Counter-currents: experiments in sustainability in the Cape Town region. Jacana Media, Auckland Park (2010).
   
  
    52.
Lefebvre, H.: Writings on cities. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, USA (1996).
   
  
    53.
Merrifield, A.: The Urban Question under Planetary Urbanization. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 37, 909–922 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01189.x.
   
  
    54.
United Nations Human Settlements Programme: State of the world’s cities 2010/11: bridging the urban divide/UN-Habitat. Earthscan, London (2008).