Abstract
This article delves into the multifaceted concept of tarmacking to analyse urban pressure as experienced in Nakuru, a secondary city in Kenya. It presents Tarmacking as a deeply sensorial and experiential understanding of city navigation underscoring the material and immaterial strategies that hustling urban dwellers employ to chart their way through the city and through life, capitalizing on opportunities while avoiding to succumb to the pressures this navigation entails. Tarmacking is part of what I present as Nakuru’s urban kinaesthetics. My analysis ultimately highlights insights about the life trajectories of young men, hustle economies, social navigation and concurring forms of pressure in the corporealities, materialities and mobilities that constitute the emergent fabric of Nakuru, offering a richer understanding of the somatic experiences of urban pressure and the strategies employed to counter them.
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