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The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America
Informality, Materiality, and Gender in Commerce
The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America
Informality, Materiality, and Gender in Commerce
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The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America: Informality, Materiality, and Gender in Commerce advances comparative knowledge and theoretical reflections on urban popular economies in Latin America by going beyond the lenses of so-called informal and street economies. Contributors address case studies in Brazil, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru to provide new insights in key concepts such as informality, materiality, and gender. These case studies work to understand which actors, and with what agencies, are forming and transforming street markets and other place-based economies, and to what effects. Remaining sensitive to history, power, and urban politics, this book offers an ethnographically informed cultural and socio-material perspective on how popular economies and commerce thrive, transform, and persist in Latin American cities today. Scholars of anthropology, economics, Latin American studies, urban studies and sociology will find this book particularly useful.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Culture, Competition, and Urban Identities in Ecuadorian Popular Economies
Chapter 2: The Art of Crafting Formal-Informal Linkages: On the Enduring Appeal of Belo Horizonte’s Hippie Fair
Chapter 3: Muraleando—Artists as Social Entrepeneurs in the Cuban Transformation Process
Chapter 4: The Making of a Proper Marketplace: The Politics of Infrastructure in the Night Market (São Paulo)
Chapter 5: Formalizing through Marketizing: Interfaces of Technology, Knowledge, and Power in Popular Commerce in La Paz (Bolivia)
Chapter 6: Culture and Economy in the Urban Global South: Braided Inequalities among Andean Migrants in Lima, Peru
Chapter 7: Relational Autonomy, Reproduction, and Popular Trade: Mobility Trajectories and Appropriation of Space among Female Street Vendors in Quito, Ecuador
Afterword: Guillermina Rico’s Family: Four Generations of Street Vendor Leaders in Mexico City
Product details
| Published | May 14 2019 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 214 |
| ISBN | 9781498572392 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Illustrations | 15 BW Photos |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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