Informal Cities and the Contestation of Public Space: The Case of Bogotá's Street Vendors, 1988—2003

Donovan, Michael G.

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“…This view connects to a growing perspective that regards informality not as a separate sector but rather a series of transactions that link different economies, spaces, and relations to one another (Donovan, 2008;Dovey, 2012;Roy, 2005). Informality, Roy and AlSayyad (2004) claim, indicates an organizing logic, a system of norms that governs the process of urban transformation itself.…”

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“…First, the hostile attitude towards informal activities is often coupled with a preference for formal or state-controlled arrangements (Flock & Breitung, 2016;Gibbings, 2013;Yatmo, 2008) to promote a 'global city' image (Donovan, 2008;Hanser, 2016;Xue & Huang, 2015). To a great extent, this policy reflects the dualistic framing discussed in the earlier section.…”

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“…Second, eviction and relocation appear to be a common recourse of the policies critical of informal vending (Donovan, 2008;Gibbings, 2013;Hanser, 2016;Yatmo, 2008). This has a spatial implication as the hawkers need to vacate their vending areas and move to designated places where the state could regulate them.…”

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“…This has a spatial implication as the hawkers need to vacate their vending areas and move to designated places where the state could regulate them. In many instances, relocation has led to declining income levels with mixed working conditions (Carrieri & Murta, 2011;Donovan, 2008). In the long run, vendors abandon the formalised market spaces and then return to vending areas, as in the case of cities across Africa (Hansen, 2004), Asia (Smart, 1986) and Latin America (Carrieri & Murta, 2011;Cross, 1998a;Donovan, 2008;Middleton, 2003).…”

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“…In many instances, relocation has led to declining income levels with mixed working conditions (Carrieri & Murta, 2011;Donovan, 2008). In the long run, vendors abandon the formalised market spaces and then return to vending areas, as in the case of cities across Africa (Hansen, 2004), Asia (Smart, 1986) and Latin America (Carrieri & Murta, 2011;Cross, 1998a;Donovan, 2008;Middleton, 2003). In some cases, relocation has failed due to ill-conceived location, bureaucratic and costly regulations, and the lack of customer drawing power of the chosen spaces (Donovan, 2008;Weng & Kim, 2016).…”

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For several decades now, Metro Manila's Baclaran district has been home to thousands of street vendors who have capitalised on its functions as a commercial centre, a transport node, and a Filipino Catholic devotional site. This presence of informal hawkers, which some government officials consider as an urban blight, has generated a range of policies that seek to manage, if not eradicate, the informal hawkers. Years of street occupancy, however, have enabled the tenacious vendors to enforce grassroots mechanisms to appropriate streetscapes. I refer to this interplay of state interventions and grassroots practices as the formal-informal interface. Seen from an urban planning perspective, the Baclaran context offers an opportunity for scholarly inquiry into how the complex spatio-political ordering and socio-economic realities unsettle the essentialist formal-versus-informal categories of work and state interventions. In sum, these findings reveal how understanding the formal-informal interface contributes to the evolving conceptual and empirical conversations on worlding cities. The Baclaran case shows how worlding practices arise from the interplay of global North-oriented planning ideals and policy approaches, the unequal socio-spatial relations, and the continuing struggle of marginalized street vendors in the global South. These issues require rethinking of policy direction and planning trajectory.iii

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As one of 725 UNESCO World Heritage Properties, Antigua, Guatemala, is subject to local international regulations related to building codes and how streets and public places are occupied. These regulations are discussed within the theoretical framework of spatial governmentality to explore that relationship between governance and Maya street vendors' economic practices. I situate the scholarly discussion of spatial governmentality within a specific economic context by highlighting how street economies are affected by what Foucault calls the "era of 'governmentality,'" especially in an ethnographic context. In this article, I argue that horizontal and vertical forms of governmentality affect the economic practices of street vendors within Antigua's sociopolitically constructed spaces. Understanding how spatial governmentalities work in a particular place helps explain why street economies persist and why new ones emerge. In Antigua's case, a new mobile form of street vending emerged because of newly implemented municipal regulations and policing priorities.

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Informal Cities and the Contestation of Public Space: The Case of Bogotá's Street Vendors, 1988—2003

Cited by 133 publications

References 29 publications

Who Governs the 'Ungovernable'? Examining Governing Relations in Urban Informality

Who Governs the 'Ungovernable'? Examining Governing Relations in Urban Informality

Urban Economies and Spatial Governmentalities in the World Heritage City of Antigua, Guatemala

Left in the ‘Shadows’: The Informal Moral Economy of the Russian Far East

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