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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2025

Michael Stasik
Michael Stasik
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Bus Station Hustle , pp. 199 - 202
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Index

Acheampong, Ignatius Kutu, 45–46
Achimota Transport Terminal, 20, 169–176, 179
active passivity, 135–136, 139
activism, 40–41, 44, 48
adaptability, 55–56, 75, 88, 111, See also resourcefulness
Ademowo, Adeyemi, 84
adzaa tricks, 81–83
African road revolution, 35
aggressiveness, See disorientation
Agyei-Mensah, Samuel, 146
Akwasidae, 96
anthropological place, 17–18, 173
anthropological studies, 20–21, 23, 164, 179, See also ethnographic realism
apprenticeship, 23, 107–110, 153–154
art of presence, 176
asafo, 80
Asantehene Osei Tutu II, 19
Ashanti Motor Union, 42
Asiedu, Alex, 146
Augé, Marc, 17–18, 173
automobilities, 23
Bachelard, Gaston, 113
balabala, 76, 83–86, 153
Barrett-Gaines, Kathryn, 70, 90
Bayat, Asef, 174, 176
Bear, Laura, 116, 142, 159
Beck, Kurt, 172
Berg Report, 49
big men, 66, 136
Bissell, David, 22, 117, 134
Bize, Amiel, 138
bookmen, 48, 64, 73, 80, 96, 117, 139, 153–154, See also collectors
boundary work, 26
branch system, 56–62
Brissett, Dennis, 133
bus station types, 2, 18–19
Busia, Kofi Abrefa, 45
car cultures, 23
chaos, See disorientation
Chayanov, Alexander, 152
Chernoff, John, 8
chop money, 64, 69, 77, 122
Circle Station, 13, 19, 103, 179
City Express Service, 43
city life (discussion of), 13–15, 28, See also social infrastructure
collective effervescence, 128
collectors, 34, 41–42, See also bookmen
colonialism, 36, 40–42, 170–171
commission system, 61
community of fate, 128
confusion, See disorientation
conning, 7–8, 156, 167, See also hustle (the meaning of)
contingency, 34, 75–76, 89–90, 94, 102, 167
corruption, 43, 46–47, 64, See also profiteering
Coupland, Douglas, 17
cultural values, 68–69, 94
cunning, 88
danger, 3–4, 25–26, 47, 85–86, 158
De Boeck, Filip, 15
de Certeau, Michel, 17
decent work deficits, 11
departure system, 74, 77, 92–94, 96, 115, 158, 167, See also fill and run; loading
deregulation, 34, 45, 49, 51, See also regulation
disorientation, 2–3, 5, 55–56, 70, 84, 86–89, 166
disruptive inverse infrastructure, 175
diversity, 2, 5, 14–15, 18, 62, 88
division of labour, 160
divorce, 139
driver experience, 128–134, 137, 141, 158, See also forcing
drivers’ associations, 38–39, 41–42, 44–45, 47, 56, 170
Dunton, Chris, 89
economic recovery programme, 49
Edensor, Tim, 92–93, 99, 102, 105, 112
Egyedi, Tineke, 175
employment brokerage, 132
empty time, 31, 167, See also temporality
ethnographic embodiment, 23
ethnographic realism, 15, 17, 22, 28, 158, 164, See also anthropological studies
exhaustion, 137–140, 156, 159, 167, See also resignation
existential anthropology, 8
Ferguson, James, 174
Feyerabend, Paul, 15
fill and run, 74, 77, 92–94, 102, 112, 114, 175
forcing, 129
fragmentation, 40, 52, 58, 67, 69, 72, 91
fraud, See corruption
Gaibazzi, Paolo, 8
gangs, 58–59, 64, 66, 69–70, 80–82, 87, 91, 117–118, 123, 125, 134–136, 141, See also exhaustion; loading; shift work
Gasparini, Giovanni, 116
Geertz, Clifford, 25, 57, 67–68, 124, 164
gender, 13, 25–27, 61, 82, 85, 87, 132, 154, 163, See also sexual assault
Geurts, Kathryn, 106, 109
Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), 45, 47–50, 52, 58–60
Ghanaian socialism, 43
Guyer, Jane, 15–16, 56, 62, 70, 75, 88
Hannerz, Ulf, 14
hard systems, 31, 169
Hart, Jennifer, 10–11, 20, 28, 39–40, 43, 58, 61, 129
Hart, Keith, 10, 47
hawkers, 31, 102, 114–115, 117, 120, 126, 138, 142, 145–150, 153–154, 171–174, See also micro-economy of waiting; mobile workers; waka-waka
Hill, Polly, 2–4, 10, 21, 23, 35
hunter-gatherers, 160
hustle (discussion of), 3–6, 28, 53, 70–71, 89, 95, 159, 162, 166–167, 174, 180
hustle (meaning of), 7–8, 20, 25, 73, 164, 178, See also conning; resourcefulness; social mobility; street hustling; survivalism; youth culture
Hustling Is Not Stealing (Chernoff), 8
Igbo market theory, 33
indigenous people, 34, 45
indigenous terms, 8–9, 80, 83, 87
industrial capitalism, 116, 159
informal work, 6, 10–12, 55, 116, 158, 162, 172, See also organisational pattern
infrastructure, 22, 49–51, 168–179, See also social infrastructure
Ingold, Tim, 94, 97, 107, 112–113, 160
International Labour Organization (ILO), 11
interstitial time, 116, 134
inverse window shopping, 145
involution, 29, 56–57, 67–70, 73–74, 80, 90–91, 123, 142, 157, 160, 164, 170–172, 175
irony, 155–156, 160
Jones, Jeremy, 69
Jordan, James, 37, 129, 131
Keller, Charles, 23
Keller, Janet, 23
Kenyatta, Jomo, 45
kinaesthetic enskilment, 30, 97, 106, 108–112, 136, 151, 160, 166, See also rhythmanalysis
Klaeger, Gabriel, ix, 4, 20, 22, 47, 51, 53, 102, 128–129, 145, 161, 174
knotting (as metaphor), 15–16
Kraus, Jon, 44, 50
Kufuor, John, 51–52
kukiya-kiya economy, 69
Kwahu people, 96
Kwame Nkrumah Circle, 179
labour in/of time, 116
Larkin, Brian, 16, 172, 176–178
law enforcement, 46–47
Lefebvre, Henri, 92, 94, 98, 103, 113
Levine, Robert, 157
liberal corporatism, 45
licensing authority, 45
Little, Kenneth, 62
loading, 30, 32, 58, 64, 73–74, 76–77, 79–82, 86–88, 90, 135, See also apprenticeship; balabala; departure system; driver experience; exhaustion; fill and run; gangs; norms; passenger experience; pausing; route competition; temporality
logic, See organisational pattern
lorry age, 10, 35, 50
lorry parks, 37–39, 41, 170, 173–176
Lucht, Hans, 8
Macmillan, Alastair, 36, 189
Malinowski, Bronisław, 15
Masquelier, Adeline, 4, 22
Mbembe, Achille, 8, 14, 16
Meagher, Kate, 11–12, 14
Mehos, Donna, 175
memorandum of understanding (MoU), 79–80
Metro Mass Transit Ltd (MMT), 19, 52
micro-economy of waiting, 141–143, 145–146, 148–151, 160, 167, See also hawkers; mobile workers
migration, 50, 67
mobile workers, 141–143, 151, 159, 161, 173, See also hawkers; micro-economy of waiting
moral economies, 33
Motor Traffic Ordinance, 39–40, 181
Munn, Nancy, 116, 158
musicology, 93
National Liberation Council (NLC), 44
National Omnibus Service Authority, 43
neoliberalism, 51
Neoplan Bus Station (description of), 1, 13, 47, 179
Neoplan Tropicliner, 48
Niamey Station, 19
niche economies, 29, 57, 60, 62, 69–70, 157, 164
Nkrumah, Kwame, 13, 43–44
non-places, 17–18, 173
norms, 5, 12, 34, 46, 55, 74, 83, 90, 94, 125–126, 131–133, 163, 168, See also organisational pattern; regulation
Ntewusu, Samuel, viii–ix, 11, 20, 28
Nugent, Paul, 66
Odzinga Ford Highway Express, 58–59, 80–81
oecological time, 98
office money, 64, 77–78
office staff, 62–64, 66, 76
okofo, 80
organisational pattern, 5, 10–12, 17–18, 30, 44, 48, 53, 55, 72, 162, 164, See also informal work; norms
Pálsson, Gísli, 97, 111, 151
Pardy, Maree, 127
passenger experience, 124–128, 141, 143, 145, 158, 174
passive activity, 135–136, 139
pausing, 133–134
Peace, Adrian, 21
Peterson, Kristin, 33
Polanyi, Karl, 163
Polanyi, Michael, 94, 97, 106, 111, 163
politics of delay, 161
Popitz, Heinrich, 37
porters, 41, 64, 66
poverty, 2–3, 68–69
poverty reduction strategies, 51
‘power to set data’, 37
private transport, 34–35, 40, 42–47, 52–53, 72, 165, 179
profiteering, 59, 110, See also corruption
Progressive Transport Owners’ Association (PROTOA), 48, 60
prosthetic kinaesthesia, 106–107, See also kinaesthetic enskilment
Prus, Robert, 7
psychology, 81, 128
public transport, 44, 51–52, 60, 115, 177
Quayson, Ato, ix, 14, 21–22, 29, 87
racism, 7
railways, 9–10, 41, 92, 116, 159–160
Rawlings, Jerry, 47–48, 53–54, 57, 71
reciprocity, 2, 5, 30, 94
Red Book of West Africa (Macmillan), 36
redistribution, 2, 52, 63, 67
regulation, 5, 10–12, 17, 34, 37–41, 45–47, 51–53, 72, 165–166, 170–172, See also deregulation; norms
resignation, 138, 154, See also exhaustion
resonance, 104–106, 111, See also kinaesthetic enskilment; synchronisation
resourcefulness, 32–34, 44, 90, 94, 168, See also adaptability
Revolutionary Council, 47
rhythmanalysis, 96, 98, 101–102, See also kinaesthetic enskilment
road rage, 127–128, 155
Robertson, Claire, 69
route competition, 62, 69–70, 79, 81–84, 86, 90–91, 102, 130
rural capitalists, 35
Sahlins, Marshall, 160
scapegoating, 128, 155
scientific pluralism, 15
Scott, James, 34, 176
self-rule, 165
sex work, 27
sexual assault, 90
shadow passengers, 31, 70, 80, 82, 86, 91, 117–123, 126, 139, 141–142, 152–157, 161
shared poverty, 68–69
Sharper, C., 7
shift work, 137–139
Simone, AbdouMaliq, 14–16, 75, 90, 172, 178
small boys, 66, 136
Snow, Robert, 133
social infrastructure, 16–17, 21, See also city life (discussion of); infrastructure
social mobility, 8
‘social nonmovements’, 174
social order, 163–164, 169, 176
soft systems, 31, 169, 179
spare cars, 78
State Transport Corporation (STC), 19
static expansion, 57, 67
station guards, 172
station master, 64, 80, 85, 103, 132, 137, 139–140, 153
Stephens, Carlene, 115
Stoller, Paul, 21, 23, 92
street economies, 6, 50, 74, 171
street hustling, 7, 9
striking, See activism
structural violence, 7
surplus labour, 157
survivalism, 8–9
synchronisation, 102–104, 167, See also resonance; temporality
taskscape, 107, 110, 175
technological drama, 172, 176
temporal horizon, 134–135, 139, 159
temporality, See also active passivity; driver experience; empty time; labour in/of time; micro-economy of waiting; passenger experience; passive activity; synchronisation
and arrhythmia, 103
and food, 103
and hawkers, 146–147, 149–150
and hustle, 95
and informal work, 116
and passivity, 135–136
and rhythm, 30, 92–95, 98–100, 104, 108–110, 112–113, 138
and schedules, 93, 112, 160
and shadow passengers, 152–153, 156–157
and social life, 93, 99
and uncertainty, 123, 127–128, 130, 135, 152, 158, 160, 166–167
and waiting, 30, 102, 114–133, 141, 158–159, 167
thick participation, 23–24, 164
Thompson, E. P., 116
‘time-thrift’, 116
transport associations, 60
transport officer, 64, 66, 132, 137
tro-tro industry, 43
Tudu Station, 19–20
union guards, 49, 53
unruliness, 177–178
urban life, See city life (discussion of)
urbanisation, 43, 164
van der Geest, Sjaak, 20, 22, 46, 96
Vannini, Phillip, 22, 93
vehicle registration, 56, 60, 63
VIP Station, 19, 60
voluntary associations, 62
waka-waka, 147–150
West African marketplaces, 1
witchcraft, 46
working hours, 3
World Bank, 49, 51, 169, 172, 191, 198
Wrangham, Elizabeth, 35
yard staff, 62, 64, 66, 69, 76–77, 80, 87–88, 137, 153
youth culture, 7–8, 73

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