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Informationen zum Autor Daniel M. Goldstein Klappentext Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to survive. In Owners of the Sidewalk Daniel M. Goldstein examines the ways these systems correlate in the marginal spaces of the Latin American city. Collaborating with the Cancha's legal and permanent stall vendors (fijos) and its illegal and itinerant street and sidewalk vendors (ambulantes), Goldstein shows how the state's deliberate neglect and criminalization of the Cancha's poor-a practice common to neoliberal modern cities-makes the poor exploitable, governable, and consigns them to an insecure existence. Goldstein's collaborative and engaged approach to ethnographic field research also opens up critical questions about what ethical scholarship entails. Zusammenfassung In this ethnography of the Cancha mega-market in Cochabama! Bolivia! Daniel M. Goldstein examines what it means for the market's poorest vendors to maintain personal safety and economic stability by navigating systems of informality and illegality and how this dynamic is representative of the neoliberal modern city. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue ix Acknowledgements xiii 1. The Fire 1 2. Writing, Reality, Truth 10 3. Don Rafo 15 4. The Informal Economy 18 5. Nacho 25 6. The Bolivian Experiment 33 7. Meet the Press 42 8. The Colonial City: Cochabamba, 1574–1900 46 9. Conflicts of Interest 54 10. Decolonizing Ethnographic Research 58 11. A Visit to the Cancha 64 12. The Informal State 74 13. The Modern City: Cochabamba, 1900–1953 80 14. Market Space, Market Time 87 15. Carnaval in the Cancha 95 16. Security and Chaos 102 17. The Informal City: Cochabamba, 1953–2014 108 18. Convenios 117 19. Political Geography 122 20. Fieldwork in a Flash 131 21. Women's Work 139 22. Sovereignty and Security 148 23. Resisting Privatization 154 24. Don Silvio 161 25. Character 167 26. Exploitability 175 27. Market Men 182 28. Webs of Illegality 190 29. Men in Black 194 30. At Home in the Market 200 31. Owners of the Sidewalk 207 32. The Seminar 214 33. March of the Ambulantes 222 34. Complications 230 35. The Archive and the System 235 36. Goodbyes 240 37. Insecurity and Informality 246 Epilogue 252 Notes 257 References 293 Index 313...
