Marketplaces: Movements, Representations and Practices

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Introduction
	Conceptualisations of marketplaces
	Marketplaces and mobility perspective
	Outline of the book
	Development of this edited volume during COVID-19
	References
Chapter 2: Hanoi’s street vendors on the move: Itinerant vending tactics and mobile methods in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
	Introduction
	Critical mobilities scholarship and the ‘mundane’
	Mobile methods
	Research approach: Route maps and go-along interviews
	Itinerant street vendor mobility rhythms, routes, experiences and frictions
		Daily rhythms and routes
		Mobility frictions
	Public/private transcripts and the politics of mobility
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: Rhythmic encounters in an Indian marketplace
	Introduction
	Research setting: Bhadra Plaza in Ahmedabad
	Spatial ethnography as a methodology
	Patterns of movement
	Rhythmic encounters in the marketplace
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 4: Spectral analysis of rhythms in urban marketplaces: A day in Esat Marketplace of Ankara (Turkey)
	Introduction
	Rhythmanalysis in marketplaces
	Narrating the marketplace: Spectral analysis of rhythms
	A day in Esat Marketplace
	Regular rhythms: Eurythmic state of the marketplace
	Emergent rhythms: Moments of arrhythmia
	Conclusion
	Visual reference
	References
Chapter 5: Adaptable market-making in eThekwini: Exploring practices of street trading in a South African urban space
	Introduction
	Reconsidering the notion of adaptive capacity within informality
	Study area and background
	Trading spaces and traders in Warwick Junction
		Entrepreneurship
		Changing political agendas and planning visions
		Regulation
	The social, spatial and institutional resilience of market-making in Warwick Junction
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: La Boqueria, “the mirror of what Barcelona represents”: An analysis of public policy and the commodification of food markets
	Introduction
	Methodology
	From ambulant stalls to the ‘best market in the world’
	Public-private partnership and the consolidation of the Barcelona model of markets
		Policy guidelines towards food markets’ diversification
		Market regulation: Safeguarding the benefits of the citizenry?
		Failed intents of regaining public control over La Boqueria
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: The fluidity of a liminal marketplace: Souq Al-Ahad, Beirut
	Introduction
	Liminal space, fluid state
	Marketplaces in Beirut
	Souq Al-Ahad’s transformation
	Surrounding transformations
	Possible futures
	References
Chapter 8: Marketplace decline heads east: Neoliberal reform, socio-spatial sorting and patterns of decline at Sofia’s public markets
	Introduction
	Spatialising inequality: Socio-spatial sorting
	Sofia’s evolving marketplaces
	Neoliberal policy
	The food growers leaving
	Re-sorting the poor across the city
	Discussion of findings
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 9: Government’s representation of Belo Horizonte’s public markets: The (ir)reconcilable grammars of economic pragmatism and social justice
	Introduction
	Social justice, marketplaces and local governance
	Markets governance and social justice: Belo Horizonte’s case
		Belo Horizonte and its marketplaces
		Markets current and future governance
	Markets’ tendering and social justice
		Democracy
		Equity
		Diversity
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 10: Lima markets beyond commerce: Challenges and possibilities of common food spaces in periods of crisis
	Introduction
	Approach to urban markets beyond commerce
	Markets for commingling: Challenges from commercial operations
	Crisis and response: Market possibilities as common urban grounds
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 11: Markets and belonging: Untangling myths of urban versus small-town life
	Introductions
	A sense of place in an urban market
	Mobile lives in a non-urban market
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 12: The role of mobility and transnationality for local marketplaces
	Introduction
	Relational proximity and the mobility of vendors
	Markets as expressions of banal and affective nationalism
	Reterritorialisation of local products from elsewhere
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 13: The multi-scalar nature of policy im/mobilities: Regulating ‘local’ markets in the Netherlands
	Introduction
	The multi-scalar nature of marketplace regulation
	Case study and methods
	The services directive: multi-scalar (im)mobilities of market regulations
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
Chapter 14: Afterword
	Introduction
	Contested time and rhythms
	M/market values and land
	Mobile policy agendas
	Mobile notions of place
	Towards an action research agenda
	References
Index