The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America (eBook, PDF)

Informality, Materiality, and Gender in Commerce
Redaktion: Dürr, Eveline; Müller, Juliane

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216304203
• Artikelnr.: 74845313

Autorenporträt

Eveline Dürr is professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. Juliane Müller is lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Popular Economy and Commerce: (In)Formality, Materiality, and
Gender in Latin American Cities 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