Owners of the Sidewalk Owners of the Sidewalk
Global Insecurities

Owners of the Sidewalk

Security and Survival in the Informal City

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Publisher Description

Many of Bolivia’s poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to survive. In Owners of the Sidewalk Daniel M. Goldstein examines the ways these systems correlate in the marginal spaces of the Latin American city. Collaborating with the Cancha’s legal and permanent stall vendors (fijos) and its illegal and itinerant street and sidewalk vendors (ambulantes), Goldstein shows how the state’s deliberate neglect and criminalization of the Cancha’s poor—a practice common to neoliberal modern cities—makes the poor exploitable, governable, and consigns them to an insecure existence. Goldstein’s collaborative and engaged approach to ethnographic field research also opens up critical questions about what ethical scholarship entails.  

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2016
January 22
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
348
Pages
PUBLISHER
Duke University Press
SELLER
Duke University Press
SIZE
4
MB

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