Title 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

Published New York : Berghahn Books, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 253 pages) Contents Introduction : Street Vending in the (Neoliberal) City : A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy / Kristina Graaff and Noa Ha -- Flexible Families : Latin/o Food Vending in Brooklyn, New York / Kathleen Dunn -- Street Vending and the Politics of Space in New York City / Ryan Thomas Devlin -- Creative Resistance : The Case of Mexico City's Street Artisans and Vendors / Veronica Crossa -- Metropolitan Informality and Racialization : Street Vending in Berlin's Historical District / Noa Ha -- Selling Memory and Nostalgia in the Barrio : Mexican and Central American Women (Re)Create Street Vending Spaces in Los Angeles / Lorena Muñoz -- Ethnic Contestations over African American Fiction : The Street Vending of Street Literature in New York City / Kristina Graaff -- The Urbanism of Los Angeles Street Vending / Kenny Cupers -- Selling in Insecurity-Living with Violence : Eviction Drives against Street Food Vendors in Dhaka, and the Informal Politics of Exploitation / Benjamin Etzold -- The Street Vendors Act and Pedestrianism in India : A Reading of the Archival Politics of the Calcutta Hawker Sangram Committee / Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay -- Street Vending, Political Activism, and Community Building in African American History : The Case of Harlem / Mark Naison -- The Roots of Street Commerce Regulation in the Urban Slave Society of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Patricia Acerbi Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Street vendors -- Social conditions -- Case studies Street vendors -- Economic conditions -- Case studies Peddling -- Social aspects -- Case studies Peddling -- Economic aspects -- Case studies Informal sector (Economics) -- Case studies Urban economics -- Case studies BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General. Informal sector (Economics) Urban economics Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book Author Graaff, Kristina, editor. Ha, Noa, editor. ISBN 9781782388357 1782388354

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