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<p>Mario Schmidt’s <i>Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi: The Pressure of Being a Man in an African City</i> offers a deeply ethnographic and theoretically astute account of migrant male subjectivities in one of sub-Saharan Africa’s most densely populated urban estates, Pipeline, Nairobi. Drawing from long-term fieldwork and situated within the <i>Making and Remaking the African City: Studies in Urban Africa</i> series, Schmidt examines how young Luo migrant men navigate economic precarity, gendered expectations and shifting moral economies amid Nairobi’s neoliberal urban transformation. This review situates Schmidt’s monograph within broader African urbanism and masculinity studies, arguing that it advances our understanding of urban pressure as both material and affective condition. Through its ethnographic depth and theoretical finesse, the book offers a major contribution to debates on African masculinities, aspirational economies and the performativity of urban modernity.</p>

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Masculinity under pressure: urban precarity and the remaking of male subjectivities in Nairobi

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    2026年3月1日

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  • Malla Praveen Bhasa

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Mario Schmidt’s Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi: The Pressure of Being a Man in an African City offers a deeply ethnographic and theoretically astute account of migrant male subjectivities in one of sub-Saharan Africa’s most densely populated urban estates, Pipeline, Nairobi. Drawing from long-term fieldwork and situated within the Making and Remaking the African City: Studies in Urban Africa series, Schmidt examines how young Luo migrant men navigate economic precarity, gendered expectations and shifting moral economies amid Nairobi’s neoliberal urban transformation. This review situates Schmidt’s monograph within broader African urbanism and masculinity studies, arguing that it advances our understanding of urban pressure as both material and affective condition. Through its ethnographic depth and theoretical finesse, the book offers a major contribution to debates on African masculinities, aspirational economies and the performativity of urban modernity.