Conference proceeding
Always on the Move?: An ethnographic study of street vendors
KulturNatur/ACSIS konferens för kulturstudier i Sverige
2009
Abstract
This paper examines methods developed for a study of street vendors as entrepreneurs, focusing on the positions they occupy in the mix of urban public life, and looking at cities across the globe. We approach vending from a cross-disciplinary perspective, investigating it as a many faceted form of business enterprise, with a particular focus on the visual and esthetic aspects of the practice. Current research on vending tends to focus on a specific type of vending (farmers’ markets, indoor markets), on specific cities, and/or specific groups of “global peddlers”– usually immigrants from a different region or country. Our aim is somewhat different: to examine the phenomenon across a range of geographic locations and to trace the diversity of vending as a practice, in particular the various forms it takes in public space and the motivations that draw or drive vendors to do this kind of work.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Always on the Move?: An ethnographic study of street vendors
- Creators
- Karin Becker - Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation (JMK)Nancy Hauserman - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- KulturNatur/ACSIS konferens för kulturstudier i Sverige
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2009
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984963129702771
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