scholarly journals La democratización de la gestión de las plazas de comercio popular en el centro histórico de la Ciudad de México

Revista Trace ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Caroline Stamm
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Political System ◽  
Politique Publique ◽  
National Context ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
New Associations ◽  
Nous Permet ◽  
Politica Publica ◽  
Nouvelles Associations

En el centro histórico de la Ciudad de México, el Programa de Mejoramiento del Comercio Popular fue impulsado a principio de los años 90 con el fin de reubicar a los vendedores ambulantes en más de veinte plazas de comercio popular. A pesar del contexto nacional de democratización del sistema político y del cuestionamiento al corporativismo, esta política pública continúa situándose dentro de la regulación corporativista tradicional del ambulantaje, caracterizada por las negociaciones entre las autoridades políticas y las asociaciones de comerciantes ambulantes representadas por sus líderes. Sin embargo, la presencia reciente de nuevas asociaciones simpatizantes del PRD o independientes en el caso particular de las plazas comerciales populares, nos permite reflexionar sobre los cambios de las condiciones de gestión del comercio ambulante. Así mismo podemos postular una evolución hacia una acción pública multiforme.Abstract: At the beginning of the 90´s, the Program for the Improvement of Street Vending was implemented in the historical centre of Mexico City, with the objective of relocating street vendors in more than twenty popular commercial centres. Despite the national context of the democratization of the political system and the questioning of corporatism, this policy took place in the tradition of corporate regulation of street vending, characterized by the negotiations between political authorities and the leaders representing street vendors’ associations. Nevertheless, new associations, independents or sympathizers of the PRD, have more recently emerged, particularly in the case of popular commercial centers, which gives rise to debate on the changes to the conditions of public management of street vendors and speculate an evolution towards a multiform public action.Résumé : Dans le centre historique de Mexico, a été mis en place au début des années 90 le programme d’amélioration du commerce populaire dans le but de relocaliser les vendeurs ambulants dans une vingtaine de centres commerciaux populaires. En dépit du contexte national de démocratisation et de remise en cause du corporatisme, cette politique publique se situe dans la continuité de la régulation corporatiste traditionnelle du commerce ambulant, caractérisée par des négociations entre les pouvoirs publics et les associations de commerçants ambulants représentées par des leaders. Cependant, plus récemment, de nouvelles associations sympathisantes du PRD ou indépendantes sont apparues dans le cas particulier des centres de commerce populaires, ce qui nous permet de réfléchir sur les changements des conditions de gestion du commerce ambulant et de postuler une évolution en direction d’une action publique multiforme.

scholarly journals Managed Informality: Regulating Street Vendors in Bangkok

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quentin Batréau ◽  
Francois Bonnet
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Political System ◽  
Commercial Real Estate ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
District Administration

The article focuses on the relationship between street vendors and local authorities in Bangkok. We examine the goals, the means, and the effects of everyday regulation of street vending. We document how the district administration produces and maintains informality by creating a parallel set of rules where street vendors enjoy negligible rents and little competition. We provide detailed empirical evidence on earnings, rents, fines, and rules regarding commercial real estate. The district administration's policy of “managed informality” results in a situation where more established informal vendors control less established ones. We hypothesize in the conclusion that the district administration's parallel legal system adjusts to the population's expectations in a political system where the law has little popular support.

scholarly journals Raumaneignungen, Regeln und Profite in Dhakas Feld des Straßenhandels – Sozialgeographische Erklärungsversuche auf Grundlage von Bourdieus Theorie der Praxis

2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Etzold
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
The State ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
Urban South ◽  
Spatial Appropriation

Abstract. The paper discusses street vendors' spatial appropriations and the governance of public space in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The much debated question in social geography how people's position in social space relates to their position in physical space (and vice versa) stands at the centre of the analysis. I use Bourdieu's Theory of Practice to discuss this dialectic relation at two analytical levels. On a micro-political level it is shown that the street vendors' social positions and the informal rules of the street structure their access to public space and thus determine their "spatial profits". At a macro-political level, it is not only the conditions inside the "field of street vending" that matter for the hawkers, but also their relation to the state-controlled "field of power". The paper demonstrates that Bourdieu's key ideas can be linked to current debates about spatial appropriation and informality. Moreover, I argue that Bourdieu's theory builds an appropriate basis for a relational, critical, and reflexive social geography in the Urban South.

Tianguis as a Possibility of Autogestion: Street Vendors Claim Rights to the City in Cancún, Mexico

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorena Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Global South ◽  
The State ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Spatial Transformation ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
The City ◽  
Rights To The City

During the past 20 years, street vendors in various cities in the Global South have resisted aggressive state sanctioned removals and relocation strategies by organizing for vendors’ rights, protesting, and creating street vending member organizations with flexible relationships to the local state. Through these means, street vendors claim “rights in the city,” even as the bodies they inhabit and the spaces they produce are devalued by state legitimizing systems. In this article, I present a case study of the Union de Tianguistas y Comerciantes Ambulantes del Estado de Quintana Roo, a “bottom-up” driven, flexible street vending membership organization not formalized by the state in Cancún. I argue that the Union becomes a platform for street vendors to claim rights to the city, and exemplifies vending systems that combine economic activities with leisure spaces in marginalized urban areas, and circumvent strict vending regulations without being absorbed into or directly monitored by the state. Highlighting the Union’s sustainable practices of spatial transformation, and vision of self-managed spaces of socioeconomic urban life in Cancún, illuminates how the members of the Union claim rights to the city as an example of a process of awakening toward imagining possibilities for urban futures that moves away from the state and capitalists systems, and akin to what Lefebvre termed autogestion toward resisting neoliberal ideologies that currently dominate urban planning projects in the Global South.

Incorporating Media in Promoting Lifelong Learning Among Street Vendors in Ghana

2019 ◽  
pp. 167-188
Author(s):  
Isaac Kofi Biney
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Business Policy ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Inclusive Business ◽  
Effective Collaboration ◽  
The Government ◽  
Learning As A Process

This chapter explores media promotion of lifelong learning among street vendors in Ghana. It looks at conceptual frameworks underpinning street vending and the relevance of media in empowering street vendors. It also examines challenges involved in street vending and strategies in integrating street vending into the formal sector of the economy of Ghana. The contributions of media in empowering street vendors and learning as a process of lifelong learning fashion are also discussed. Issues emerging from street vending and recommendations are discussed. The chapter concludes that the Government of Ghana should develop all-inclusive business policy to accelerate formalization of informal enterprises. Street vendors should also build strong front, and leadership, to foster effective collaboration and partnership with media houses to aid in deepening lifelong learning drive in Ghana.

Managing Contentious Collective Action

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-129
Author(s):  
Calla Hummel
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Street Vendor ◽  
La Paz ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

Chapter 5 develops an ethnography of street vendors, their organizations, and the city officials who they interact with in the city of La Paz, Bolivia. The chapter is based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the city over four research trips in 2012, 2014 to 2015, 2018, and 2019 as well as administrative data on 31,906 street vending licenses in the city. Fieldwork included interviews, participant observation at dozens of meetings between bureaucrats and organized vendors, ride-alongs with the Municipal Guard, a street vendor survey, working as a street vendor in a clothing market, and selling wedding services with a street vendor cooperative. The theory’s observable implications are illustrated with ethnographic evidence, survey results, and license data from La Paz. I discuss how street vending has changed in the city and how officials have intervened in collective action decisions as the informal sector grew. The chapter demonstrates that officials increased benefits to organized vendors as the costs of regulating markets increased. Additionally, the leaders that take advantage of these offers tend to have more resources than their colleagues, and as the offers increased, so did the level of organization among the city’s street vendors. The chapter also discusses the many trade-offs that officials make in implementing different policies, and how officials manage the often combative organizations that they encourage.

Inequality and poverty: The ill-fitting pieces in the EU’s development partnerships

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riina Pilke ◽  
Marikki Stocchetti
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Politique Publique ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Coherence ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Politica Publica ◽  
The Eu

[Full article is in English]English: This article reviews the main policy guidelines set by the European Union (EU) for eradicating poverty and inequality in the context of its development cooperation partnerships. Drawing on the structure of the EU’s treaty, the EU’s offi cial development policies since 2005, and the related European Commission documents over the past five years, it examines the conceptions of poverty and inequality and how the EU translates them into operational diff erentiation. The scope of the diff erentiated cooperation encompasses diff erent types of developing countries, including a variety of both low-income countries (LICs) and middleincome countries (MICs). The article argues that diff erentiation poses a challenge to the EU’s internal development policy coherence. While the EU has adopted a multifaceted understanding of poverty, its conception of inequality is very narrow. In addition, the authors contend that the EU lacks clear criteria for diff erentiation in diverse country contexts in both regards.Spanish: El propósito de este trabajo es revisar los principales lineamientos de política pública establecidos por la Unión Europea (UE) para la erradicación de la pobreza y la desigualdad en el contexto de sus asociaciones de cooperación al desarrollo. Con base en la estructura de los tratados de la UE, las políticas oficiales de desarrollo de la UE desde 2005, y los documentos relacionados de la Comisión Europea en los últimos cinco años, este artículo examina las concepciones de pobreza y desigualdad así como la traducción sistemática que hace la UE de dichos conceptos en una diferenciación funcional en sus asociaciones de cooperación al 22 Regions & Cohesion • Spring 2016 desarrollo. El alcance de la cooperación diferenciada abarca diferentes tipos de países en desarrollo, incluyendo una variedad de países con bajos y medios ingresos (LIC y MIC por sus siglas en inglés). El artículo sostiene que la diferenciación plantea un desafío a la coherencia de la política pública de desarrollo al interior de la UE. Mientras que la UE ha adoptado una comprensión multifacética de la pobreza, su concepción de la desigualdad es muy estrecha. Además, las autoras argumentan que la UE carece de criterios claros para una diferenciación que tome en cuenta las dimensiones tanto de pobreza como de desigualdad en diversos contextos de países.French: L’objectif de ce texte consiste à passer en revue les principales lignes de politique publique de l’Union Européenne (UE) en matière de lutte contre la pauvreté et des inégalités dans le cadre de son partenariat de coopération pour le développement. A partir d’une révision des traités de l’UE, des politiques officielles de développement depuis 2005 et de documents de la Commission Européenne datant des cinq dernières années, l’article évoque les conceptions de la pauvreté et des inégalités et comment l’UE les traduit par une différenciacion opérative en matière de coopération pour le développement. La portée de la coopération differenciée inclut différents types de pays en développement, y compris divers pays à revenus bas et intermédiaires. Cet article défend l’idée que la différentiation présente un défi pour la cohérence de la politique de développement au sein de l’UE. Alors que celle-ci a adopté un point de vue multifacétique de la pauvreté, sa conception des inégalités est extrêmement limitée. Ainsi, les auteures affirment que l’UE manque de critères clairs pour établir une différenciation qui prenne en compte à la fois les dimensions de la pauvreté et les inégalités dans les différents contextes nationaux.

Moving Towards Decent Work for Street Vendors in Tanzania

Utafiti ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-278
Author(s):  
Nasibu Rajabu Mramba ◽  
Nandera Ernest Mhando
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Goods And Services

Abstract Street vending is an important employment opportunity for the millions of youth, women, anyone with very few resources and the least-skilled people in low-income countries. Its popularity is due to the ease of entry into the business as far as costs, legal eligibility, and level of education. Despite their importance to local economies, street vendors operate in challenging environments that limit the productivity, the decency, and the sustainability of this kind of work. Governments should play a central role in improving the quality of work in this sector, particularly in countries where it constitutes a large proportion of the nation’s work force, and provides goods and services to so many people.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC GOVERNANCE IN UKRAINE: PUBLIC RESONANCE IN RELATION TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF REFORMS

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (49) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liudmyla Herasina
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Main Body ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Processes

Problem of setting. Public government – it political practice of power which is carried out within the limits of the constitutionally political system and has a direct influence on all industries of life of socium is important. An effective public management in Ukraine must provide the state of stability, implementation of social obligations the states, deserving a condition for realization of congratulatory, financial, spiritual and social necessities of citizens; but him high-quality indexes far imperfect and characterized the plural of problems. Recent research and publications analysis. The questions of modernization and reforms of the system of state administration, constructions of the legal, social state, social and political processes are actively probed in the scientific mind of Ukraine, by the necessity of achievement of balance between the vital necessities of societies and interests of the state. Quite a bit Ukrainian scientists were engaged in researches of these questions - V. Kostytsky, І. Kostytska, O. Koban, A. Kovalenko, O. Batanov, I. Reznik, G. Chapala, M. Pukhtinskiy et al. Paper objective – ground of position, that a public management in Ukraine, which is carried out by public organs, local self-government, political parties and groups of political influence, must correlate with public resonance, to support the legitimity and answer to the innovative tendencies. Paper main body. A management in the public sphere of the state is very difficult professional activity, and foresees state and legal responsibility and account of public interests and expectations. However, disfunctions and destructions of public management can draw social and political instability, cutback of economic activity or regress, even weakening of sovereignty of the state. The criteria of political modernization matter very much for modern Ukraine: capacity of the political system for perception of innovations and mobilization of resources of power, structural and functional perfection of institutes of policy, powerful «social elevators» for equal access of people to imperious positions, effectiveness of principle of «equality all before a law». To Ukraine, as to the young state which passed by democratic transit, naturally peculiar strategy of reforms. Reformation is a not workaday situation for a country, it generates calls and problems. Among them most difficult is destructive of political power, what democratic development of country and becoming of civil institutes is braked through. Sociological researches rotined that a population considered: «The state must take more responsibility in providing of life of citizens» (68,6%). Stably negative is attitude of people toward a department judicial, which loses a «social capital» through inability to the just legal proceeding and mercenary political interests. In the end, unique reform 2014, that purchased positive social resonance is the process of decentralization the public power and strengthening of local self-government, which is mainly approved by citizens. Conclusions of the research. Problems of public management and collision of reforms are the sign of modern democracies which are modernized. The political system and public management can be effectively modernized at the maintainance of their integrity, institutional memory and, at the same time, harmonious relationships with a social environment.

scholarly journals La importancia estratégica de hacer observación pública en Veracruz. La propuesta del Observatorio Social

UVserva ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto Treviño Ronzón ◽  
Erick Galán Castro
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
National Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
Politica Publica

En este artículo se describe la propuesta de trabajo del Observatorio Social de la Universidad Veracruzana, enmarcada en un ejercicio de reflexión sobre la importancia de las prácticas de observación pública y académica en el contexto local, regional y nacional. El escrito describe los campos que aborda el Observatorio Social, la estrategia que se sigue en el diseño de las metodologías e indicadores, así como los alcances del trabajo.Palabras clave: Observación pública; violencia; justicia; vulnerabilidad; política pública AbstractThis paper describes the work agenda of the Social Observatory of the Uni­versidad Veracruzana, framed in an exercise of reflection on the importance of public and academic observation practices in the local, regional and national context. The paper des­cribes the fields addressed by the Social Obser­vatory, the strategy followed in the design of methodologies and indicators, as well as the scope of work. Keywords: Public observation; violence; justi­ce; vulnerability; public policy

scholarly journals Understanding a Specific Walkable Space via the Phenomenon of Chinese Street Vending: An actor-network theory analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (13) ◽  
pp. 190
Author(s):  
Ziwen Sun ◽  
Simon Bell ◽  
Iain Scott
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

In contemporary Chinese cities, the pervasive phenomenon of street vending often emerges in a predictable space where numerous people frequently walk or stay. Using actor-network theory as a conceptual tool, this study initially elaborates a set of physical and social processes of configuration regarding Chinese street vending in walkable spaces. The network analysis involves heterogeneous actors and multiple associations regarding two groups of people, livelihoods and demands, mobile amenities, dietary habits, urban micro-economy, and collective participation. The results illustrate additional knowledge to why walkability, and how a specific walkable space is configured in the Chinese context.Keywords: Street vendors; Walkable spaces; Actor-network theory; Specificity.eISSN 2398-4295 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v3i13.156

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