Street Vending in the Neoliberal City

A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-827-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 385 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graaff, Kristina

Ha, Noa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

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

Über Autor(innen)

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

Ha, Noa
Noa Ha is Researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University of Berlin.

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