Street vending in the neoliberal city
Subtitle: a global perspective on the practices and policies of a marginalized economy
By: edited by Kristina Graaff and Noa Ha
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York; Oxford
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781782388340; 9781782388357
Subjects: Urban economics; Case studies; Economic conditions; Street vendors; Informal sector (Economics); Social conditions; Peddling
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Street Vending in the (Neoliberal) City : A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy / Kristina Graaff and Noa Ha; title: Flexible Families : Latin/o Food Vending in Brooklyn, New York / Kathleen Dunn; title: Street Vending and the Politics of Space in New York City / Ryan Thomas Devlin; title: Creative Resistance : The Case of Mexico City's Street Artisans and Vendors / Veronica Crossa; title: Metropolitan Informality and Racialization : Street Vending in Berlin's Historical District / Noa Ha; title: Selling Memory and Nostalgia in the Barrio : Mexican and Central American Women (Re)Create Street Vending Spaces in Los Angeles / Lorena Muñoz; title: Ethnic Contestations over African American Fiction : The Street Vending of Street Literature in New York City / Kristina Graaff; title: The Urbanism of Los Angeles Street Vending / Kenny Cupers; title: Selling in Insecurity-Living with Violence : Eviction Drives against Street Food Vendors in Dhaka, and the Informal Politics of Exploitation / Benjamin Etzold; title: The Street Vendors Act and Pedestrianism in India : A Reading of the Archival Politics of the Calcutta Hawker Sangram Committee / Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay; title: Street Vending, Political Activism, and Community Building in African American History : The Case of Harlem / Mark Naison; title: The Roots of Street Commerce Regulation in the Urban Slave Society of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Patricia Acerbi.