The Struggles over City-Space

Dr. Daniel Hawkins B.A., M.A.

doi:10.5771/9783845232683

Summary

Die staatlich geführte Transformation Medellíns vom Zentrum mafiöser Strukturen zum mondänen Drehkreuz Lateinamerikas hat die täglichen Kämpfe auf der Straße in den Hintergrund gedrängt. Illegale Straßenhändler spielen ein Katz-und-Maus-Spiel mit der Regierung, die verzweifelt versucht, öffentlichen Raum zurück zu erobern, welcher en masse informeller und sozialer Reproduktion dient. Der Autor zeichnet diesen Kampf nach und zeigt die starke symbolische Kraft, die die Straßenverkäufer trotz ihrer sozio-ökonomischen Marginalisierung besitzen.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8329-6700-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-3268-3
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Studien zu Lateinamerika
Volume: 13
Language: English
Pages: 328
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 2 - 4
Acknowledgements No access Pages 5 - 6
Table of Contents No access Pages 7 - 10
List of Figures and Tables No access Pages 11 - 12
Acronyms & Abbreviations No access Pages 13 - 14
Introduction No access Pages 15 - 26
1. Methodology No access Pages 27 - 30
2. Analytical perspective No access Pages 30 - 32
3. Empirical method No access Pages 32 - 36
1. 1. Medellín: urban growth and transformation and class impacts in space No access Pages 37 - 39
  2. The urbe in Latin America No access Pages 39 - 44
  3. Medellín: the interrelated spheres of industrialization, urbanization, informality and violence No access Pages 44 - 48
1. 1. Opening the door to Marxian theory No access Pages 49 - 55
  2. Space and geography as secondary spheres in social theory No access Pages 55 - 59
  3. Space: a missing realm in Marxian theory? No access Pages 59 - 62
  4. Incorporating geography and space into Marxian theory No access Pages 62 - 66
  5. Spatio-temporal fixes: imperialisms of capital and imperialisms of territory No access Pages 66 - 70
  6. Accumulation via Dispossession: the violence of reshaping space and society No access Pages 70 - 73
  7. The spatio-temporalities of capitalism in the city: dilemmas and prospects No access Pages 73 - 76
  8. Public space and the rule of exchange value No access Pages 76 - 80
  9. Urbanization and industrialization in capitalist-city development No access Pages 80 - 84
  10. The spheres and avenues of class power and subaltern power struggles No access Pages 84 - 90
  11. Informal struggle and the terrain of citizenship in Latin America No access Pages 90 - 92
  12. Clientelism: the citizenship of concrete interests No access Pages 92 - 96
1. Modernizing the city: the science of urbanism No access Pages 97 - 106
2. Class bias in the urban development of Medellín No access Pages 106 - 108
3. The official capitalist city and the pervasive ‘popular’ city No access Pages 108 - 111
4. The limits of the capital industrial model (1950-1980) No access Pages 111 - 120
5. Urban insecurity, economic fracturing and the disabled State: 1980-1990 No access Pages 120 - 126
6. The reconfiguration of the State: decentralization and the new sphere of Public Space (1990-2008) No access Pages 126 - 128
7. The Birth of a Rights discourse and the emergence of a Colombian citizenry No access Pages 128 - 133
8. Aesthetic beauty or community vivacity? No access Pages 133 - 137
1. 1. The informal labour market: the forgotten sphere of political economic theory No access Pages 138 - 145
  2. Structural ‘unemployment’, ‘underemployment’ and the informal sector No access Pages 145 - 153
  3. Macro-economic solutions to sectoral and productive heterogeneities No access Pages 153 - 156
  4. Re-sketching the urban transformations and their association with the formal, informal and illegal economies (a historical backtracking) No access Pages 156 - 159
  5. From the informal ‘sector’ debate to the specificities of informal street vending: global and local transformations No access Pages 159 - 160
  6. Street vending in the age of modernity and post-modernity No access Pages 160 - 165
  7. Informal street vendors: a distinct category of informal agents and activity No access Pages 165 - 170
  8. The further division of street vendors: time and stability No access Pages 170 - 171
  9. Informal street vending: ignore it, endorse it, or eliminate it? No access Pages 171 - 177
1. 1. Informal street trade and local government regulation pre-1988 No access Pages 178 - 183
  2. Popular local and departmental elections and the reinvigoration of public space: impacts on the governance of informal street vending No access Pages 183 - 185
  3. Local administration policies to recuperate the city centre. Juan Gómez Martínez and the construction of large-scale vendor markets No access Pages 185 - 188
  4. Omar Flórez Vélez: the pseudo-passive approach to informal street vending regulation No access Pages 188 - 189
  5. Luis Alfredo Ramos: an integral approach to informal street vending regulation No access Pages 189 - 190
  6. Sergio Naranjo and the reordering of the city centre No access Pages 190 - 193
  7. The return of Juan Gómez Martínez and mass-scale vendor relocation in CCPs No access Pages 193 - 194
  8. Luís Pérez and the resurgence of citizenship vis-à-vis public space No access Pages 194 - 198
  9. Independent politics and the emergence of Sergio Fajardo No access Pages 198 - 212
  10. The present administration: Alonso Salazar and political continuance No access Pages 212 - 216
  11. Governing urban public space and informal street vending in the period of decentralization (1988-2008) No access Pages 216 - 222
1. 1. The normative definition and protection of public space No access Pages 223 - 226
  2. The 1991 Constitution: the guarantor of citizen rights No access Pages 226 - 232
  3. The Constitutional Court’s political interpretation of the informal street vending-public space recuperation conflict No access Pages 232 - 240
  4. The fundamental right to the vital minimum No access Pages 240 - 241
  5. The Constitutional demarcation of how far State policies can stretch No access Pages 241 - 243
1. 1. Survey of Medellín’s vendors: working conditions and vendor perception of local administrations No access Pages 244 - 247
  2. Three-tiered informal vendor survey No access Pages 247 - 250
  3. Findings No access Pages 250 - 267
  4. Group 2 (vendors in government-built kiosks) No access Pages 267 - 272
  5. Group three (CCP vendors) No access Pages 272 - 283
  6. Conclusions No access Pages 283 - 289
  7. Colombian trade union confederations and the informal street vending sector: gradual improvement in organizational drive? No access Pages 289 - 294
  8. Informal vendor action and relationship to the present municipal government of Medellín No access Pages 294 - 295
  9. Final Reflections No access Pages 295 - 299
  10. Moving the theoretical debate along No access Pages 299 - 301
  11. Concretely examining local political regulation of ISV No access Pages 301 - 304
1. Formal Interviews No access
2. Informal conversations (apart from the vendor surveys of Chapter 7) No access Pages 306 - 306
Bibliography No access Pages 307 - 328