Goldstein Owners of the Sidewalk

Security and Survival in the Informal City
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7471-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 348 Seiten

Reihe: Global Insecurities

In this ethnography of the Cancha mega-market in Cochabama, Bolivia, Daniel M. Goldstein examines what it means for the market's poorest vendors to maintain personal safety and economic stability by navigating systems of informality and illegality and how this dynamic is representative of the neoliberal modern city.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldstein, Daniel M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue ix

Acknowledgements xiii

1. The Fire 1

2. Writing, Reality, Truth 10

3. Don Rafo 15

4. The Informal Economy 18

5. Nacho 25

6. The Bolivian Experiment 33

7. Meet the Press 42

8. The Colonial City: Cochabamba, 1574–1900 46

9. Conflicts of Interest 54

10. Decolonizing Ethnographic Research 58

11. A Visit to the Cancha 64

12. The Informal State 74

13. The Modern City: Cochabamba, 1900–1953 80

14. Market Space, Market Time 87

15. Carnaval in the Cancha 95

16. Security and Chaos 102

17. The Informal City: Cochabamba, 1953–2014 108

18. Convenios 117

19. Political Geography 122

20. Fieldwork in a Flash 131

21. Women's Work 139

22. Sovereignty and Security 148

23. Resisting Privatization 154

24. Don Silvio 161

25. Character 167

26. Exploitability 175

27. Market Men 182

28. Webs of Illegality 190

29. Men in Black 194

30. At Home in the Market 200

31. Owners of the Sidewalk 207

32. The Seminar 214

33. March of the Ambulantes 222

34. Complications 230

35. The Archive and the System 235

36. Goodbyes 240

37. Insecurity and Informality 246

Epilogue 252

Notes 257

References 293

Index 313

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel M. Goldstein is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, the author of Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City and The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia, and the coeditor of Violent Democracies in Latin America, all also published by Duke University Press.