Street Entrepreneurs

Addressing the current dearth of available literature on this topic, the editors use a range of international case studies to explore street vending and informal economies which continue to be, especially in developing countries, a vital economic driver. This volume collects essays from authors around the world about the markets and vendors they know best, including studies of USA, China, Mexico, and Turkey. The contributors speak of the struggles that vendors have faced to legitimize their activity, the role that they play in helping societies adapt to and survive catastrophes as well as the practical roles that they play in both the local and global social and economic system. As well as highlighting the importance of street markets as a phenomenon of interest in itself to a growing body of scholarship, this study demonstrates how an analysis of street vending can provide insights not only into economic anthropology, but also urban studies, post modernism, spatial geography, political sociology and globalization theory.

ISBN 0415770289   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780415770286 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 689 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Published in London Imprint Routledge   Series ISSN 66 Format Hardback   Series title Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy Publication date 15 Jan 2007   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress HF5458   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 381.18   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate Pages 304

1		Introduction : locating street markets in the modern/postmodern world by John C. Cross and Alfonso Morales		1
Pt. I		Appropriating space : political and social regulation of street markets		15
2		Capitalism, modernity, and the "appropriate" use of space by John C. Cross and Marina Karides		19
3		Redefining rules : a market for public space in Caracas, Venezuela by Maria Fernanda Garcia-Rincon		36
4		Legal responses to sidewalk vending : the case of Los Angeles, California by Gregg W. Kettles		58
5		Street vendors at the border : from political spectacle to bureaucratic iron cage? by Kathleen Staudt		79
6		Street vending in urban India : the struggle for recognition by Sharit K. Bhowmik		92
7		The conflict between street vendors and local authorities : the case of market traders in Ankara, Turkey by Recep Varcin		108
8		Pirates on the high streets : the street as a site of local resistance to globalization by John C. Cross		125
Pt. II		Making the sale : strategies, survival, and embeddedness		145
9		Trust in markets : economies of regard and spaces of contestation in alternative food networks by Colin Sage		147
10		Institutional perspectives on understanding street retailer behavior and networks : cases from Ghana by Fergus Lyon		164
11		Embeddedness and business strategies among Santiago, Chile's street and flea market vendors by Joel Stillerman and Catherine Sundt		180
12		Spaces of conflict and camaraderie : the contradictory logics of a postsocialist flea market by Olfg Pachenkov and Danielle Berman		201
13		Adaptability and survival : a case study of street vendor responses to famine conditions in Ethiopia, 1999 by Michele Companion		223
14		Indelible intersections : insights from New Zealand's largest street market by Anne De Bruin and Ann Dupuis		245
15		Conclusion : law, deviance, and defining vendors and vending by Alfonso Morales		262

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