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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480453803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-835-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Disciplina

381/.18

Soggetti

Street vendors - Social conditions

Street vendors - Economic conditions

Peddling - Social aspects

Peddling - Economic aspects

Informal sector (Economics)

Urban economics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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