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Rebel Streets and the Informal Economy - Street Trade and the Law (Paperback)
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Rebel Streets and the Informal Economy - Street Trade and the Law (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
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Street trade is a critical and highly visible component of the
informal economy, linked to global systems of exchange. Yet policy
responses are dismissive and evictions commonplace. Despite being
progressively marginalised from public space, street traders in the
global south are engaged in spatial and political battlegrounds to
reclaim space, and claim de facto property rights over their place
of work, through quiet infiltration, union power, or direct action.
This book explores 'rebel streets', the challenges faced by
informal economy actors and how organised groups are seeking to
reframe legal understandings to create new claims to space and
urban rights. The book sets out new thinking and a conceptual
framework for improved understanding of the plural relationship
between law, rights, and space for the informal economy, the
contest between traditional, modernist and rights-based approaches
to development, and impacts on the urban working poor. With a focus
on street trading, the book seeks to reframe the legal context in
which modern informal economies operate, drawing on key areas of
academic inquiry and case studies of how vendors are staking claim
to urban rights. The book argues for a reconceptualisation of legal
instruments to provide a rights-based framework for urban work that
recognises the legitimacy of urban informal economies, the scope
for collective management of urban resources, and the social value
of public space as a site for urban livelihoods. It will be of
interest to students and scholars of geography, economics, urban
studies, development studies, political studies and law.
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