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Owners of the Sidewalk

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Owners of the Sidewalk

By Daniel M. Goldstein

4 Ratings • 4.3 of 5

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About the book

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), Goldste...Show more

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ISBN

9780822360452

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published year

2016

Language

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1

Original title

Owners of the Sidewalk

Format

Paperback

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