Street entrepreneurs : people, place and politics in local and global perspective
Series: Routledge studies in the modern world economyPublication details: London Routledge 2007Description: xxii,277pISBN:- 9780415748476
- 338.04 CRO
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Contents
List of illustrations xi
Notes on contributors xiii
Foreword by Ray Bromley xv
Preface and acknowledgments xix
1 Introduction: locating street markets in the modern/postmodern world 1
JOHN C. CROSS AND ALFONSO MORALES
PART I
Appropriating space: political and social regulation of street
markets 15
2 Capitalism, modernity, and the "appropriate" use of space 19
JOHN C. CROSS AND MARINA KARIDES
3 Redefining rules: a market for public space in Caracas,
Venezuela 36
MARiA FERNANDA GARCiA-RINCON
4 Legal responses to sidewalk vending: the case of Los Angeles,California 58
GREGG W. KETTLES
5 Street vendors at the border: from political spectacle to
bureaucratic iron cage? 79
KATHLEEN STAUDT
6 Street vending in urban India: the struggle for recognition 92
SHARIT K . BHOWMIK
7 The conflict between street vendors and local authorities: the case of market traders in Ankara, Turkey 108
RECEP VARCIN
8 Pirates on the high streets: the street as a site of local resistance to globalization 125
JOHN C. CROSS
PART II
Making the sale: strategies, survival, and embeddedness 145
9 Trust in markets: economies of regard and spaces of contestation in alternative food networks 147
COLIN SAGE
10 Institutional perspectives on understanding street retailer
behavior and networks: cases from Ghana 164
FERGUS LYON
11 Embeddedness and business strategies among Santiago,
Chile's street and flea market vendors 180
JOEL STILLERMAN AND CATHERINE SUNDT
12 Spaces of conflict and camaraderie: the contradictory logics of a postsocialist flea market 201
OLEG PACHENKOV AND DAN!ELLE BERMAN
13 Adaptability and survival: a case study of street vendor
responses to famine conditions in Ethiopia, 1999 223
MICHELE COMPANION
14 Indelible intersections: insights from New Zealand's largest
street market 245
ANNE DE BRUIN AND ANN DUPUIS
15 Conclusion: law, deviance, and defining vendors and vending 262
ALFONSO MORALES
Index 270
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