From quiet to bold encroachment: contesting dispossession in Accra’s informal sector

Gillespie, Tom

doi:10.1080/02723638.2016.1191792

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“…The relationship between informality and dispossession is firmly on the intellectual agenda in human geography today (Gillespie, , ; Samson, ). In attempting to theorise and empirically examine this relationship, geographers have engaged with political economy (Glassman, ).…”

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The enclosure of “waste land”: Rethinking informality and dispossession

Inverardi-Ferri

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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The paper contributes to the recent geographical debates on the connection between dispossession and informality. Existing scholarship recognises that informality is an integral part of capitalism. Arguments reinforcing the formal–informal dichotomy dominate research on processes of dispossession. Drawing on analyses of the struggle of waste recyclers in Beijing, this paper conceptualises informal activities in relation to circuits of capital. It contends that theories of dispossession need to be extended in order to analyse processes of enclosure in the informal economy. The conclusion discusses the potential of reconceptualising dispossession as a variegated process operating both outside and within the capitalist space.

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The enclosure of “waste land”: Rethinking informality and dispossession

Inverardi-Ferri

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…However, recent studies on resistance have argued that citizens are not just resisters of the poor outcomes of urban governance but activists who, most often, deploy multiple and simultaneous resistance strategies and self-governance practices to cause a change in urban governance (Asante & Helbrecht, 2019a;Lindell, 2008;Lindell et al, 2019;Mitlin, 2018). Recent waves of activism experiment with new kinds of collective action and use a wide spectrum of unconventional forms of contestation (Gillespie, 2017;Mitlin, 2018;Monno, 2016;Obeng-Odoom, 2017;Polanska, 2018). In a 2019 study in Kumasi by Asante and Helbrecht (2019a), they observed that the activism of traders compelled the municipal authority to heed their demands for a written agreement and the right of first refusal during the allocation of trading spaces in the new market.…”

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Urban governance in Ghana: the participation of traders in the redevelopment of Kotokuraba Market in Cape Coast

Asante

2020

African Geographical Review

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This article contributes to the discourse of participatory urban governance through a qualitative analysis of the redevelopment of a market infrastructure in Cape Coast, Ghana. It demonstrates that problems arise with the quantity, distance and size of trading spaces when traders are not made to participate at the construction phase of market redevelopment. The responses of the municipal authorities and the market traders in Cape Coast to these problems are discussed. The wider implication of the findings of this study is that citizens should be engaged from the conception through planning to the implementation of urban regeneration. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Crackdown on Illegal Street traders often results in temporary relief, afterward, the activities continue even on a greater scale [25]. Their activities if left unchecked quietly encroaches on the urban spaces and multiplies to defend their compared territory [26].…”

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Assessment of Street Trading Activities in Public Spaces (Ikorodu Motor Garage), Ikorodu, Lagos

Ajakaiye,

Zakariyau,

Akinola

et al. 2020

IJITEE

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The present study examined socio-economic characteristics of commuters patronizing street traders, assessed factors responsible for patronizing street trader, investigated the perceived environmental hazard and assessed perceived spatial implications of street trading in Ikorodu motor park, Lagos State, Nigeria. The experimental survey research design was employed to first determine the average daily carrying capacity of the motor park (15,830 persons per day), while the sample size was 100, based on the Taro Yemane sample size formula. The 100 sets of questionnaires were used as the data collection instrument and it was administered to the patronizers of street traders. The purposive non-probability sampling technique was used. Data analysis adopted both descriptive (tables, Likert Scale) and Inferential (Factor analysis). The study established a preponderance of males over females and the majority of respondents had attained secondary education and were single (unmarried). Affordability, availability and location were revealed by the 5-point Likert scale output as factors most responsible for street trading patronage. Results of factor analysis for factors responsible for patronage of street revealed a K.M.O. value of 0.735, at Bartlett’s test significance level of 0.000. The communality of values revealed attractiveness (47.1%) as the least and availability (77.7%) as the highest. There was a cumulative total of 64.74% with a variance of 5.35% and 8.51 “at” and “after” extraction. It was also revealed that noise pollution, air pollution, and violence were the major perceived environmental hazards, while congestion, waste disposal, and obstruction of drainage systems were the perceived spatial implication of street trading activities in Ikorodu garage. The study concluded that street trading is properly included in the formal urban setting to enhance effectiveness, functionality and aesthetics.

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From quiet to bold encroachment: contesting dispossession in Accra’s informal sector

Cited by 67 publications

References 48 publications

The enclosure of “waste land”: Rethinking informality and dispossession

The enclosure of “waste land”: Rethinking informality and dispossession

Urban governance in Ghana: the participation of traders in the redevelopment of Kotokuraba Market in Cape Coast

Assessment of Street Trading Activities in Public Spaces (Ikorodu Motor Garage), Ikorodu, Lagos

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