A marriage of convenience: Street vendors' everyday accommodation of power in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Lata, Lutfun Nahar; Walters, Peter; Roitman, Sonia

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2018.08.002

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“…The study areas were purposively selected because of some important reasons. Both slums are among the densely populated slums in Dhaka; Sattola has nearly 12,893 households (Roy et al 2014, Marcil et al 2016, Lata et al 2019) and more than 12,000 households are estimated to be located in Pallabi (Rokanuzzaman et al 2013). Moreover, both areas represent geographically varied contexts.…”

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“…Providing space for living and livelihood activities to this ever increasing population has become as challenging as bringing them in all necessary social services. As a result, conflicts over using urban spaces have become regular phenomena in Dhaka, like in all other cities of the global south (Lata et al 2019).…”

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“…Urban poor in many cities, particularly in Latin America, have established examples of successful movements through their organized and collective efforts (Crossa 2009, Mackie et al 2014. But in the case of Dhaka, although vendors are a regular subject to exploitation, coercion and impendence, they are not united for claiming their rights; they rather prefer alternative ways to sustain their activity in cities by negotiating with different agents (Hackenbroch et al 2016, Lata et al 2019.…”

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THE URBAN POOR in DHAKA: PERSPECTIVES ON THE RIGHT TO THE CITY

Arefin¹,

Rashid²

2021

JURA

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The urban poor experience serious discontents, harassment, eviction, police repression and local goons threatening when using urban space for living and livelihood purposes. This study pursues to understand the poor people’s negotiation strategies with different powerful agents who occupy money, muscleman and political affiliation. Following a mixed method approach, this study investigates the two biggest slums in Dhaka as case studies. Findings show that urban poor have to build different social-contract relations with various local agents as survival mechanisms while economic activities using urban space are considered to be illegal in Bangladesh. The role of the state is somewhat ambiguous in this regard. On the one hand, the state is not evicting the poor permanently from the city but it is repatriating them on other grounds and, on the other hand, it permits hundreds of informal intermediary agents to work for sustaining informal urban settlements for the poor people. We argue that these distinctive socio-structural arrangements in Dhaka city is hindering poor people from getting united and claiming their rights to the city while also not providing them proper opportunities to fully appropriate the urban space. These socio-economic relations need to be considered in order to make a just city for all, from the RTC perspective.

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Arefin¹,

Rashid²

2021

JURA

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“…To better understand the challenges and insecurities market vendors and their associations are often confronted with, the concept of "gray spaces" may be helpful to illustrate the flexible and negotiable application of the law to neither approve nor destruct their existence (Yiftachel 2009a(Yiftachel , 2009b. The concept has, for instance, been used to show how vendors sought protection from powerful individuals to defend their "illegal" claims to urban space (Lata et al 2019). Such findings demonstrate some of the possibilities to bend or enforce the law by powerful groups, and they may be used for political purposes too.…”

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The “Gray Spacing” of Market Vendors and Their Associations and Vendors’ Collective Agency in the Zambian City of Kitwe

Jongh

2020

Urban Forum

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Market vendors are often marginalized in urban spaces—they may be harassed, face threats to their workplace security, or lack opportunities to influence urban policy-making. Associations of market vendors have been identified as a potential means to represent vendors’ interests, offering vendors possibilities to improve their working conditions. Fieldwork has been conducted in 2013, 2016, and 2018 to understand the struggles of market vendors and those of their associations in the Zambian city of Kitwe. The paper explores how both market vendors and their associations are positioned in a “gray space” between legality and illegality, unaware if their existence will be approved or sanctioned by the (local) government. The paper argues that the “gray space” in which many market vendors are positioned is a consequence of a lack of suitable alternative and more secure marketspaces. Associations are considered in relation to the political environment in which they operate and their future existence is particularly threatened by a regulation criminalizing them. Not only has this led to the abolishment of a well-known association, but it has also protected some associations whereas others are sidelined. Findings indicate that “gray spacing” and the accompanied changes in the associations jeopardize market vendors’ efforts to organize more autonomously and have isolated their struggles from attempts to organize all informal economy workers under a Zambian umbrella association.

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“…Development is the process of changing from a less favorable condition to a better situation. Growth in the economy in an area cannot be separated from the informal sector, namely Street Vendors (Lata, Walters, & Roitman, 2019;Arifin, 2019). Street Vendors are economic activities in the form of the informal sector that open businesses in the production and sale of goods and services using relatively small capital and occupy public spaces that are considered strategic (Haryono in the Yusdi, 2011:12).…”

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How Government Strengthens the Street Vendors: Analysis of the Role of Brebes District Government

Ismail

Kusumo²

2019

JLLR

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The empowerment of street vendors in an area, if appropriately managed, will be able to improve the economy of the community and the local government. It is the duty of the local government. This study aims to find out the efforts and impacts of street vendors' empowerment by the Brebes Regency government. The results showed that:(1) street vendors' empowerment efforts carried out by the Brebes Regency Government were reasonable, but it would be better if street vendors' empowerment efforts had special regional regulations related to street vendors' empowerment. (2) The impact of empowerment by the Brebes Regency Government is divided into two aspects, namely social and economic issues. Common elements, for example, the formation of street vendor associations, a more organized environment, in financial aspects, for instance increasing street vendors' income and increasing the income of Brebes Regency.

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A marriage of convenience: Street vendors' everyday accommodation of power in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Cited by 41 publications

References 26 publications

THE URBAN POOR in DHAKA: PERSPECTIVES ON THE RIGHT TO THE CITY

THE URBAN POOR in DHAKA: PERSPECTIVES ON THE RIGHT TO THE CITY

The “Gray Spacing” of Market Vendors and Their Associations and Vendors’ Collective Agency in the Zambian City of Kitwe

How Government Strengthens the Street Vendors: Analysis of the Role of Brebes District Government

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