Street vending in the neoliberal city : a global perspective on the practices and policies of a marginalized economy / edited by Kristina Graaff and Noa Ha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Graaff, Kristina, editor.

Ha, Noa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Street vendors--Social conditions--Case studies.

Street vendors.

Street vendors--Economic conditions--Case studies.

Peddling--Social aspects--Case studies.

Peddling.

Peddling--Economic aspects--Case studies.

Informal sector (Economics)--Case studies.

Informal sector (Economics).

Urban economics--Case studies.

Urban economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examining street vending as a global, urban, and informalized practice found both in the Global North and Global South, this volume presents contributions from international scholars working in cities as diverse as Berlin, Dhaka, New York City, Los Angeles, Calcutta, Rio de Janeiro, and Mexico City. The aim of this global approach is to repudiate the assumption that street vending is usually carried out in the Southern hemisphere and to reveal how it also represents an essential—and constantly growing—economic practice in urban centers of the Global North. Although street vending activities vary due to local specificities, this anthology illustrates how these urban practices can also reveal global ties and developments.

Contents:

Contents; Figures; Introduction - Street Vending in the Neoliberal City: A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy; Part I - Responding to Urban and Global Neoliberal Policies; Chapter 1 - Flexible Families: Latina/o Food Vending in Brooklyn, New York; Chapter 2 - Street Vending and the Politics of Space in New York City; Chapter 3 - Creative Resistance: The Case of Mexico City's Street Artisans and Vendors; Part II - Street Vending and Ethnicity; Chapter 4 - Metropolitan Informality and Racialization: Street Vending in Berlin's Historical Center

Chapter 5 - Selling Memory and Nostalgia in the Barrio: Mexican and Central American Women (Re)Create Street Vending Spaces in Los Angeles Chapter 6 - Ethnic Contestations over African American Fiction: The Street Vending of Street Literature in New York City; Part III - The Spatial Mobility of Urban Street Vending; Chapter 7 - The Urbanism of Los Angeles Street Vending; Chapter 8 - Selling in Insecurity, Living with Violence: Eviction Drives against Street Vendors in Dhaka and the Informal Politics of Exploitation

Chapter 9 - The Street Vendors Act and Pedestrianism in India: A Reading of the Archival Politics of the Calcutta Hawker Sangram CommitteePart IV - Historical Accounts of Street Vending; Chapter 10 - Street Vending, Political Activism, and Community Building in African American History: The Case of Harlem; Chapter 11 - The Roots of Street Commerce Regulation in the Urban Slave Society of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-400-3

1-78238-835-4

OCLC:

935495205