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Introduction: Street Vending in the (Neoliberal) City: A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy
Kristina Graaff and Noa Ha
PART I: RESPONDING TO URBAN AND GLOBAL NEOLIBERAL POLICIES
Chapter 1. Flexible Families: Latina/o Food Vending in Brooklyn, New York
Kathleen Dunn
Chapter 2. Street Vending and the Politics of Space in New York City
Ryan Thomas Devlin
Chapter 3. Creative Resistance: The Case of Mexico City’s Street Artisans and Vendors
Veronica Crossa
PART II: STREET VENDING AND ETHNICITY
Chapter 4. Metropolitan Informality and Racialization: Street Vending in Berlin’s Historical District
Noa Ha
Chapter 5. Selling Memory and Nostalgia in the Barrio: Mexican and Central American Women (Re)Create Street Vending Spaces in Los Angeles
Lorena Muñoz
Chapter 6. Ethnic Contestations over African American Fiction: The Street Vending of Street Literature in New York City
Kristina Graaff
PART III: THE SPATIAL MOBILITY OF URBAN STREET VENDING
Chapter 7. The Urbanism of Los Angeles Street Vending
Kenny Cupers
Chapter 8. Selling in Insecurity—Living with Violence: Eviction Drives against Street Food Vendors in Dhaka, and the Informal Politics of Exploitation
Benjamin Etzold
Chapter 9. The Street Vendors Act and Pedestrianism in India: A Reading of the Archival Politics of the Calcutta Hawker Sangram Committee
Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay
PART IV: HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF STREET VENDING
Chapter 10. Street Vending, Political Activism, and Community Building in African American History: The Case of Harlem
Mark Naison
Chapter 11. The Roots of Street Commerce Regulation in the Urban Slave Society of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Patricia Acerbi
Notes on Contributors
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
262 pages, 14 illus., 2 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-834-0 Hb Published (October 2015)
eISBN 978-1-78238-835-7 eBook