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Amy Schoenecker - Street Vending and the Right to the City, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Street Vending and the Right to the City

Av Amy Schoenecker

Del i serien Rights to the City

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Street vendors often face disproportionate state violence not simply for their use of public space, but because of who they are as users of public space. Through a multicity comparison, Street Vending and the Right to the City demonstrates how vendors blur the lines of in/formality through their resistance tactics, and fight for their rights to the city not only as economic agents, but as residents seeking urban belonging. Given the state violence that people living and working informally face, claiming the right to exist in urban space is indeed a radical act. Cities and states, from New York City to Uruguay, have begun to formalize street vending, with many advocates arguing for this approach, but this book highlights why formalization is not a cure. With international examples and an in-depth case study featuring a comparison of Chicago and Mumbai, the chapters explore how urban informalities are produced and offer perspectives on roadblocks and pathways to gaining legitimacy. This book is essential for academics and students in urban planning, urban studies, anthropology, sociology, urban design, geography, and political science, as well as practitioners and policymakers.
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Amy Schoenecker is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Hartford.

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"Street Vending and the Right to the City is a beautifully crafted comparative ethnography of vendors in Chicago and Mumbai that demonstrates that informality is not a developmental gap but a governing logic of cities across the global South and North. Attending to vendors’ everyday negotiations with fragmented, often violent state institutions, Schoenecker reveals how licensing regimes, bureaucratic gray zones, and spatial bans create the conditions for and simultaneously marginalize informal commerce and the people engaged in this work. The book’s compelling portraits of vendors’ 'politics of presence' demonstrate that street vending is not peripheral to city life, but central to struggles over belonging, citizenship, and the right to shape urban futures."Liza Weinstein, Associate Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University"Schoenecker's work offers readers a glimpse into the imaginarily incomparable, yet uncomfortably similar xenophobic, classist, and in multiple ways, informal urban regimes of Chicago and Mumbai, as viewed through the lens of street vending and vendors. Her accounts of regulatory trajectories and vendors' frustrating interactions with legal and enforcement systems illuminate how informality is operationalized in the governance of these self-branded 'global' cities. She provocatively shifts the conceptual focus from the uses to the users of public space, effectively demonstrating the exclusionary intent of bureaucracies of control and marginalization. The book centers vendors' common agency across global divides, revealing how the right to the city is a perpetual negotiation for otherized (im)migrant entrepreneurs."David Schlifka, AICP, PhD Candidate, Georgia State University

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