The Struggles over City-Space: Informal Street Vending and Public Space Governance in Medellin, Colombia

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

Edition: 1/2011
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 Daniel Hawkins
Acknowledgements No access Pages 5 - 6 Daniel Hawkins
Table of Contents No access Pages 7 - 10 Daniel Hawkins
List of Figures and Tables No access Pages 11 - 12 Daniel Hawkins
Acronyms & Abbreviations No access Pages 13 - 14 Daniel Hawkins
Introduction No access Pages 15 - 26 Daniel Hawkins
1. Methodology No access Pages 27 - 30 Daniel Hawkins
2. Analytical perspective No access Pages 30 - 32 Daniel Hawkins
3. Empirical method No access Pages 32 - 36 Daniel Hawkins
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1. 1. Medellín: urban growth and transformation and class impacts in space No access Pages 37 - 39 Daniel Hawkins
  2. The urbe in Latin America No access Pages 39 - 44 Daniel Hawkins
  3. Medellín: the interrelated spheres of industrialization, urbanization, informality and violence No access Pages 44 - 48 Daniel Hawkins
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1. 1. Opening the door to Marxian theory No access Pages 49 - 55 Daniel Hawkins
  2. Space and geography as secondary spheres in social theory No access Pages 55 - 59 Daniel Hawkins
  3. Space: a missing realm in Marxian theory? No access Pages 59 - 62 Daniel Hawkins
  4. Incorporating geography and space into Marxian theory No access Pages 62 - 66 Daniel Hawkins
  5. Spatio-temporal fixes: imperialisms of capital and imperialisms of territory No access Pages 66 - 70 Daniel Hawkins
  6. Accumulation via Dispossession: the violence of reshaping space and society No access Pages 70 - 73 Daniel Hawkins
  7. The spatio-temporalities of capitalism in the city: dilemmas and prospects No access Pages 73 - 76 Daniel Hawkins
  8. Public space and the rule of exchange value No access Pages 76 - 80 Daniel Hawkins
  9. Urbanization and industrialization in capitalist-city development No access Pages 80 - 84 Daniel Hawkins
  10. The spheres and avenues of class power and subaltern power struggles No access Pages 84 - 90 Daniel Hawkins
  11. Informal struggle and the terrain of citizenship in Latin America No access Pages 90 - 92 Daniel Hawkins
  12. Clientelism: the citizenship of concrete interests No access Pages 92 - 96 Daniel Hawkins
1. Modernizing the city: the science of urbanism No access Pages 97 - 106 Daniel Hawkins
2. Class bias in the urban development of Medellín No access Pages 106 - 108 Daniel Hawkins
3. The official capitalist city and the pervasive ‘popular’ city No access Pages 108 - 111 Daniel Hawkins
4. The limits of the capital industrial model (1950-1980) No access Pages 111 - 120 Daniel Hawkins
5. Urban insecurity, economic fracturing and the disabled State: 1980-1990 No access Pages 120 - 126 Daniel Hawkins
6. The reconfiguration of the State: decentralization and the new sphere of Public Space (1990-2008) No access Pages 126 - 128 Daniel Hawkins
7. The Birth of a Rights discourse and the emergence of a Colombian citizenry No access Pages 128 - 133 Daniel Hawkins
8. Aesthetic beauty or community vivacity? No access Pages 133 - 137 Daniel Hawkins
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1. 1. The informal labour market: the forgotten sphere of political economic theory No access Pages 138 - 145 Daniel Hawkins
  2. Structural ‘unemployment’, ‘underemployment’ and the informal sector No access Pages 145 - 153 Daniel Hawkins
  3. Macro-economic solutions to sectoral and productive heterogeneities No access Pages 153 - 156 Daniel Hawkins
  4. Re-sketching the urban transformations and their association with the formal, informal and illegal economies (a historical backtracking) No access Pages 156 - 159 Daniel Hawkins
  5. From the informal ‘sector’ debate to the specificities of informal street vending: global and local transformations No access Pages 159 - 160 Daniel Hawkins
  6. Street vending in the age of modernity and post-modernity No access Pages 160 - 165 Daniel Hawkins
  7. Informal street vendors: a distinct category of informal agents and activity No access Pages 165 - 170 Daniel Hawkins
  8. The further division of street vendors: time and stability No access Pages 170 - 171 Daniel Hawkins
  9. Informal street vending: ignore it, endorse it, or eliminate it? No access Pages 171 - 177 Daniel Hawkins
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1. 1. Informal street trade and local government regulation pre-1988 No access Pages 178 - 183 Daniel Hawkins
  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 Daniel Hawkins
  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 Daniel Hawkins
  4. Omar Flórez Vélez: the pseudo-passive approach to informal street vending regulation No access Pages 188 - 189 Daniel Hawkins
  5. Luis Alfredo Ramos: an integral approach to informal street vending regulation No access Pages 189 - 190 Daniel Hawkins
  6. Sergio Naranjo and the reordering of the city centre No access Pages 190 - 193 Daniel Hawkins
  7. The return of Juan Gómez Martínez and mass-scale vendor relocation in CCPs No access Pages 193 - 194 Daniel Hawkins
  8. Luís Pérez and the resurgence of citizenship vis-à-vis public space No access Pages 194 - 198 Daniel Hawkins
  9. Independent politics and the emergence of Sergio Fajardo No access Pages 198 - 212 Daniel Hawkins
  10. The present administration: Alonso Salazar and political continuance No access Pages 212 - 216 Daniel Hawkins
  11. Governing urban public space and informal street vending in the period of decentralization (1988-2008) No access Pages 216 - 222 Daniel Hawkins
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1. 1. The normative definition and protection of public space No access Pages 223 - 226 Daniel Hawkins
  2. The 1991 Constitution: the guarantor of citizen rights No access Pages 226 - 232 Daniel Hawkins
  3. The Constitutional Court’s political interpretation of the informal street vending-public space recuperation conflict No access Pages 232 - 240 Daniel Hawkins
  4. The fundamental right to the vital minimum No access Pages 240 - 241 Daniel Hawkins
  5. The Constitutional demarcation of how far State policies can stretch No access Pages 241 - 243 Daniel Hawkins
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1. 1. Survey of Medellín’s vendors: working conditions and vendor perception of local administrations No access Pages 244 - 247 Daniel Hawkins
  2. Three-tiered informal vendor survey No access Pages 247 - 250 Daniel Hawkins
  3. Findings No access Pages 250 - 267 Daniel Hawkins
  4. Group 2 (vendors in government-built kiosks) No access Pages 267 - 272 Daniel Hawkins
  5. Group three (CCP vendors) No access Pages 272 - 283 Daniel Hawkins
  6. Conclusions No access Pages 283 - 289 Daniel Hawkins
  7. Colombian trade union confederations and the informal street vending sector: gradual improvement in organizational drive? No access Pages 289 - 294 Daniel Hawkins
  8. Informal vendor action and relationship to the present municipal government of Medellín No access Pages 294 - 295 Daniel Hawkins
  9. Final Reflections No access Pages 295 - 299 Daniel Hawkins
  10. Moving the theoretical debate along No access Pages 299 - 301 Daniel Hawkins
  11. Concretely examining local political regulation of ISV No access Pages 301 - 304 Daniel Hawkins
1. Formal Interviews No access Daniel Hawkins
2. Informal conversations (apart from the vendor surveys of Chapter 7) No access Pages 306 - 306 Daniel Hawkins
Bibliography No access Pages 307 - 328 Daniel Hawkins