Etzold The Politics of Street Food

Contested Governance and Vulnerabilities in Dhaka's Field of Street Vending
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-515-10622-1
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band 13, 386 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Megacities and Global Change / Megastädte und globaler Wandel

In Bangladesh, the sale of food in public space is often contested: Street food is needed, but not wanted. 100,000 street vendors sell dishes, snacks, fruits, and beverages in the megacity of Dhaka. Street food is important for urban food security as mobile labourers and the poor rely on cheap, readily available and nutritious food. The authorities argue that encroachments of streets and footpaths are illegal and disorderly, and that street food is unhygienic. They therefore evict the vendors regularly. But the hawkers are somewhat protected through the informal rules of the street. While some of them are highly vulnerable to poverty and police raids, most navigate well through these contested governance regimes and can successfully sustain their livelihoods.

In this e-book, different conceptual perspectives are integrated on the basis of Bourdieu's Theory of Practice. It provides fresh insights into the role of street food in urban food system and contributes to a deeper understanding of the vulnerabilities of the urban poor, the informal governance of public space, and the dominant discourses on street food. From a relational and critical perspective it captures "the politics of street food" and sketches innovative solutions towards fair street food governance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Etzold, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;CONTENTS;6
2;LIST OF TABLES;10
3;LIST OF FIGURES;11
4;LIST OF MAPS;13
5;LIST OF BOXES;13
6;LIST OF CASE STUDIES;13
7;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;14
8;SUMMARY;15
9;ZUSAMMENFASSUNG;17
10;1 INTRODUCTION;20
10.1;1.1 IMPRESSIONS FROM DHAKA’S FIELD OF STREET FOOD;20
10.2;1.2 MOTIVATION FOR THIS STUDY;21
10.3;1.3 STRUCTURE OF THIS STUDY;27
11;2 WITH BOURDIEU TOWARDS A RELATIONAL, CRITICAL, AND REFLEXIVE SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY;31
11.1;2.1 RELEVANCE OF BOURDIEU’S THEORY FOR SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY;31
11.2;2.2 BOURDIEU’S SIX CENTRAL PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL RESEARCH;33
11.3;2.3 BOURDIEU’S THEORY OF PRACTICE: SIX CENTRAL THEOREMS;35
11.4;2.4 INTERIM CONCLUSION: NAVIGATING THROUGH FIELDS, ARENAS AND NETWORKS;48
12;3 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: STREET FOOD GOVERNANCE;52
12.1;3.1 STREET VENDING: A HIGHLY VISIBLE INFORMAL PRACTICE;52
12.2;3.2 INFORMALITY AS A PRACTICE OF CONTESTED GOVERNANCE;54
12.3;3.3 THE APPROPRIATION OF URBAN PUBLIC SPACE;78
12.4;3.4 SOCIAL PRACTICES AND VULNERABILITY;86
12.5;3.5 STREET FOOD VENDING AND THE URBAN FIELDS OF FOOD;95
12.6;3.6 CONCEPTUAL SYNTHESIS: CONTESTED STREET FOOD GOVERNANCE;108
13;4 RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY;116
13.1;4.1 RESEARCH APPROACH: IMAGINING THE FIELD OF STREET FOOD;116
13.2;4.2 STUDY SITES: INVESTIGATING ARENAS OF STREET VENDING;122
13.3;4.3 APPLIED METHODS: ANALYSING THE FIELD OF STREET FOOD;123
13.4;4.4 INTERIM CONCLUSION: RELATIONAL, CRITICAL, AND REFLEXIVE RESEARCH IN SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY;135
14;5 THE SOCIAL FIELD OF STREET FOOD IN DHAKA;137
14.1;5.1 THE MEGACITY OF DHAKA;138
14.2;5.2 THE EMERGENCE OF THE PRESENT FIELD OF STREET FOOD;145
14.3;5.4 THE STATE AND THE FIELD OF STREET FOOD;159
14.4;5.5 INTERIM CONCLUSION: ILLEGALISATION AND MARGINALISATION OF THE FIELD OF STREET FOOD;176
15;6 STREET FOOD VENDING AND URBAN FOOD SECURITY;178
15.1;6.1 FIELDS OF FOOD AND THE FIELD OF LABOUR;179
15.2;6.2 DHAKA’S FIELD OF FOOD CONSUMPTION;189
15.3;6.3 STREET FOOD CONSUMPTION IN DHAKA;196
15.4;6.4 SITES OF STREET FOOD CONSUMPTION IN DHAKA;209
15.5;6.5 INTERIM CONCLUSION: STREET VENDING CONTRIBUTES TO FOOD SECURITY;214
16;7 INSIDE THE FIELD: STYLES OF VENDING, SOCIAL POSITIONS AND VULNERABILITY;216
16.1;7.1 DISTINCTIONS IN DHAKA’S FIELD OF STREET FOOD;217
16.2;7.2 ENTERING THE FIELD, CLAIMING ACESS TO THE ARENAS;221
16.3;7.3 WORKING AS A STREET FOOD VENDOR IN DHAKA;244
16.4;7.4 THE DIFFERENTIAL VULNERABILITY OF STREET FOOD VENDORS;255
16.5;7.5 SOCIAL RECOGNITION INSIDE THE FIELD OF STREET FOOD;267
16.6;7.6 INTERIM CONCLUSION: SECURING POSITIONS IN FIELDS AND ARENAS;270
17;8 CONTESTED STREET FOOD GOVERNANCE: STREET POLITICS AND EVICTIONS;272
17.1;8.1 STREET POLITICS: MODES OF GOVERNANCE IN ARENAS OF STREET VENDING;273
17.2;8.2 ENCOUNTERS AND CONTESTATIONS WITH THE STATE;284
17.3;8.3 STREET VENDORS’ VULNERABILITY TO POLICE EVICTIONS;295
17.4;8.4 INTERIM CONCLUSION: THE DANCE OF COMMAND AND CONTROL;324
18;9 TOWARDS FAIR STREET FOOD GOVERNANCE;329
18.1;9.1 POLICY GUIDELINES FOR STREET VENDING IN BANGLADESH;330
18.2;9.2 ARE FAIR PRACTICES OF STREET FOOD GOVERNANCE POSSIBLE?;332
19;REFERENCES;345
20;ANNEX;368

Über Autor(innen)

Etzold, Benjamin
Dr. Benjamin Etzold is a research associate and lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Bonn. He holds a PhD in Geography and a Diploma degree in Geography, Sociology and Political Science. He conducted his PhD research in Dhaka on street vendors, food security and contested urban governance within the programme "Megacites-Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change", funded by the German Research Foundation. He was also part of the UNU-EHS/CARE-research project "Where the Rain falls", in which the relations between rainfall variability, food security and migration were investigated in northern Bangladesh.

His broader research interests are nested in the fields of social geography, political geography, development studies, migration studies and urban studies. As a lecturer, he teaches courses in development geography, migration and globalization, social geography, and empirical research methods.