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OWNERS OF THE SIDEWALK IBD

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
01 / 2016
9780822360452
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Sinopsis

Many of BoliviaâÇÖs 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 CanchaâÇÖs legal and permanent stall vendors (fijos) and its illegal and itinerant street and sidewalk vendors (ambulantes), Goldstein shows how the stateâÇÖs deliberate neglect and criminalization of the CanchaâÇÖs poor-a practice common to neoliberal modern cities-makes the poor exploitable, governable, and consigns them to an insecure existence. GoldsteinâÇÖs collaborative and engaged approach to ethnographic field research also opens up critical questions about what ethical scholarship entails.áá

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