Women on the Move: Hanoi's Migrant Roving Street Vendors

Jensen, Rolf; Peppard, Donald M.; Thang, Vu Thi MInh; Nguyen-Marshall, Van

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“…From then until the early 2000s, street vending was tolerated and unregulated, as its role in bringing additional incomes to farming families was acknowledged. However, since the early 2000s, the municipal authorities have tried to restrict street vending in an effort to modernize the city and control the uses of the streets and sidewalks, carrying out massive crackdown operations (Jensen, Peppard, & Vũ, 2013). In 2009, Hanoi officially allowed street selling, albeit under restrictive conditions; sellers were supposed to "avoid obstruction" (Decision No.…”

Section: Hanoi: Chasing Informal Vendors and Markets Away Fro M Centr...mentioning

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Governing the nurturing city: the uneven enforcement of street food vending regulations

Pulliat,

Block,

Bruckert

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Urban Geography

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Street vending has drawn recent attention from city governments in both the Global North and the Global South. This paper focuses on the regulation of street food vending and its enforcement in four cities: Bangkok, Chicago, Hanoi and Montpellier. It draws upon qualitative interviews, archival and newspaper research, and ethnography. The regulatory frameworks raise several issues, because they deny access to space and income for groups that are often underprivileged, and they neglect the roles of street food in the urban food system. We show that the actual enforcement of regulations is uneven between and within cities and between vendors. In some cases, street-level negotiations around enforcement may actually mitigate the negative effects on underprivileged vendors. Hence, the governance of street food vending appears to be more nuanced than the formal regulations that exist. We argue that the design of regulations should better consider the street vendors' voice and their needs.

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Section: Hanoi: Chasing Informal Vendors and Markets Away Fro M Centr...mentioning

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Governing the nurturing city: the uneven enforcement of street food vending regulations

Pulliat,

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Bruckert

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Urban Geography

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“…Gold industry representatives, such as the World Gold Council, linked the rising demand for gold in Asia to rising incomes and the diversification of investment assets. In both India and Vietnam, economic liberalization has been accompanied by the emergence of a robust middle‐class‐based ethos of consumption, which has also generated new demands to cleanse those urban spaces associated with the poor and working classes (Fernandes , 2415; Jensen and Rolf ). Justifications for both the SJC bar and the Indian Gold Coin invoke middle‐class concerns with reliability in marketplaces, where consumer goods were readily copied, smuggled, and counterfeited.…”

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Nationalizing gold: The Vietnamese SJC gold bar and the Indian Gold Coin

Truitt

2018

Economic Anthropology

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The popularity of gold in India and Vietnam is attributed to either cultural values or an undeveloped financial sector. Yet gold also serves as an important reserve asset for central banks, more so than ever following the 2008 financial crisis. By way of exploring this juxtaposition, I turn to recent campaigns in each country to promote a national gold form, the SJC bar in Vietnam and the Indian Gold Coin. Although the campaigns have been framed in oppositional terms—the Vietnamese state has sought to demonetize gold, the Indian state to promote its monetization—I reconcile this contradiction by examining the particular histories of gold in each country and why gold served as a particularly potent symbol of economic liberalization. Gold, I argue, ultimately links citizens in the Global South with actors in the heart of the international monetary system; thus the promotion of these two national brands of gold shows state‐led efforts to intervene in processes of value creation.

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Women on the Move: Hanoi's Migrant Roving Street Vendors

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Governing the nurturing city: the uneven enforcement of street food vending regulations

Governing the nurturing city: the uneven enforcement of street food vending regulations

Nationalizing gold: The Vietnamese SJC gold bar and the Indian Gold Coin

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