What happens when you aren’t a teenager anymore but you haven’t quite made the transition to adulthood just yet? Listen to the finale of Notes from the Field desk to find out! In this episode we take a trip through Accra’s streets, discuss all the theorists we’ve covered so far and John makes a confession. This episode includes field recordings from my actual research in Ghana including interviews with young Uber drivers from Accra. As I said on my twitter this episode is also a love letter to anthropology!

The cast in order of appearance;

James McGrail Lucy Hansen Julie Karremans Lexy Matthews Fatimah Momtaz Georgia Armstrong Shajeela Shawkat And Zareef Karim

Thank you for listening to Notes from the Field Desk, this episode references;

Malinowski, Bronislaw (1922) Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Evans-Pritchard, E.E., The Nuer, 1940, Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Asad, Talal (1973) Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter

Butler, Judith (1990) Gender Trouble

Tsing, Anna (2015) The Mushroom at the End of the World

Ference, M. (2016). “Together We Can”: Redefining Work in Nairobi’s Urban Transportation Sector.

Gaibazzi, P. (2015). The quest for luck: Fate, fortune, work and the unexpected among Gambian Soninke hustlers.

Honwana, Alcinda (2012) The Time of Youth: Work, Social Change and politics in Africa.

Ntewusu, S. A. (2012). Settling in and holding on: a socio-economic history of northern traders and transporters in Accra's Tudu, 1908-2008.

Quayson, A. (2014). Oxford Street, Accra : City life and the itineraries oftransnationalism.

The sounds were;

Hammer on Metal Fence by GammelsMurfen https://freesound.org/people/Gammelsmurfen778/sounds/474005/

traffic heavy dense boulevard Dakar, Senegal, Africa by Kyles https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/450668/

rbh Ouaga traffic scooters by RHumphries https://freesound.org/people/RHumphries/sounds/982/

agbogbloshie by Ikbenraar https://freesound.org/people/ikbenraar/sounds/457227/

Thailand Truck Minibus by Kyles https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/177749/

Wind inside car by ra_gun https://freesound.org/people/ra_gun/sounds/82267/

Ghana bus station megaphone by Jakabvalenta https://freesound.org/people/jakubvalenta/sounds/367174/

Market in Africa by Felix Blume https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/173153/

And my own field recordings.

Our theme music was dark side of my students » newageisz_tadeusz by miastodzwiekowmaszewski https://freesound.org/people/miastodzwiekow/sounds/341770/