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Street Vending in the Neoliberal City

A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy

Kristina Graaff, Noa Ha (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
262 Seiten
2015
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781782388340 (ISBN)
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From a multifaceted, global, and transnational perspective, the volume examines street vending and urban policies around the globe, comparing practices in the Global South to that in the Northern hemisphere. Essays show that though street vending activities vary depending on site-specific regulations...
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.

Kristina Graaff is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

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Introduction: Street Vending in the (Neoliberal) City: A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy

Kristina Graaff and Noa Ha



PART I: RESPONDING TO URBAN AND GLOBAL NEOLIBERAL POLICIES



Chapter 1. Flexible Families: Latina/o Food Vending in Brooklyn, New York

Kathleen Dunn



Chapter 2. Street Vending and the Politics of Space in New York City

Ryan Thomas Devlin



Chapter 3. Creative Resistance: The Case of Mexico City’s Street Artisans and Vendors

Veronica Crossa



PART II: STREET VENDING AND ETHNICITY



Chapter 4. Metropolitan Informality and Racialization: Street Vending in Berlin’s Historical District

Noa Ha



Chapter 5. Selling Memory and Nostalgia in the Barrio: Mexican and Central American Women (Re)Create Street Vending Spaces in Los Angeles

Lorena Muñoz



Chapter 6. Ethnic Contestations over African American Fiction: The Street Vending of Street Literature in New York City

Kristina Graaff



PART III: THE SPATIAL MOBILITY OF URBAN STREET VENDING



Chapter 7. The Urbanism of Los Angeles Street Vending

Kenny Cupers



Chapter 8. Selling in Insecurity—Living with Violence: Eviction Drives against Street Food Vendors in Dhaka, and the Informal Politics of Exploitation

Benjamin Etzold



Chapter 9. The Street Vendors Act and Pedestrianism in India: A Reading of the Archival Politics of the Calcutta Hawker Sangram Committee

Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay



PART IV: HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF STREET VENDING



Chapter 10. Street Vending, Political Activism, and Community Building in African American History: The Case of Harlem

Mark Naison



Chapter 11. The Roots of Street Commerce Regulation in the Urban Slave Society of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Patricia Acerbi



Notes on Contributors

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.10.2015
Zusatzinfo 2 Illustrations; 2 Tables, unspecified
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 522 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-13 9781782388340 / 9781782388340
Zustand Neuware
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