Daniel M. Goldstein

Owners of the Sidewalk: Security and Survival in the Informal City

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Global Insecurities
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780822360452
• ISBN-10: 0822360454
• Artikelnr.: 42517460

Autorenporträt

Daniel M. Goldstein is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, the author of Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City and The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia, and the coeditor of Violent Democracies in Latin America, all also published by Duke University Press.    

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue  ix
Acknowledgements  xiii
1. The Fire  1
2. Writing, Reality, Truth  10
3. Don Rafo  15
4. The Informal Economy  18
5. Nacho  25
6. The Bolivian Experiment  33
7. Meet the Press 42
8. The Colonial City: Cochabamba, 1574–1900  46
9. Conflicts of Interest  54
10. Decolonizing Ethnographic Research  58
11. A Visit to the Cancha  64
12. The Informal State  74
13. The Modern City: Cochabamba, 1900–1953  80
14. Market Space, Market Time  87
15. Carnaval in the Cancha  95
16. Security and Chaos  102
17. The Informal City: Cochabamba, 1953–2014  108
18. Convenios  117
19. Political Geography  122
20. Fieldwork in a Flash  131
21. Women's Work  139
22. Sovereignty and Security  148
23. Resisting Privatization  154
24. Don Silvio  161
25. Character  167
26. Exploitability  175
27. Market Men  182
28. Webs of Illegality  190
29. Men in Black  194
30. At Home in the Market  200
31. Owners of the Sidewalk  207
32. The Seminar  214
33. March of the Ambulantes  222
34. Complications  230
35. The Archive and the System  235
36. Goodbyes  240
37. Insecurity and Informality  246
Epilogue  252
Notes  257
References  293
Index  313