Global Insecurities
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Global Insecurities

Security and Survival in the Informal City

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Global Insecurities

Security and Survival in the Informal City

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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.    

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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2016
ISBN
9780822374718
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Prologue
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. 1. The Fire
  6. 2. Writing, Reality, Truth
  7. 3. Don Rafo
  8. 4. The Informal Economy
  9. 5. Nacho
  10. 6. The Bolivian Experiment
  11. 7. Meet the Press
  12. 8. The Colonial City: Cochabamba, 1574–1900
  13. 9. Conflicts of Interest
  14. 10. Decolonizing Ethnographic Research
  15. 11. A Visit to the Cancha
  16. 12. The Informal State
  17. 13. The Modern City: Cochabamba, 1900–1953
  18. 14. Market Space, Market Time
  19. 15. Carnaval in the Cancha
  20. 16. Security and Chaos
  21. 17. The Informal City: Cochabamba, 1953–2014
  22. 18. Convenios
  23. 19. Political Geography
  24. 20. Fieldwork in a Flash
  25. 21. Women’s Work
  26. 22. Sovereignty and Security
  27. 23. Resisting Privatization
  28. 24. Don Silvio
  29. 25. Character
  30. 26. Exploitability
  31. 27. Market Men
  32. 28. Webs of Illegality
  33. 29. Men in Black
  34. 30. At Home in the Market
  35. 31. Owners of the Sidewalk
  36. 32. The Seminar
  37. 33. March of the Ambulantes
  38. 34. Complications
  39. 35. The Archive and the System
  40. 36. Goodbyes
  41. 37. Insecurity and Informality
  42. Epilogue
  43. Notes
  44. References
  45. Index