This edited volume portrays marketplaces from a mobility perspective as dynamic and open entities consisting of flows of people, goods and ideas.
There is a renewed interest in research and policy arenas in marketplaces as the core of cities’ spatial and economic development and sociocultural life, as incubators of urban renewal and platforms of alternative consumption models and as source of livelihood for many people worldwide. Contributions of this book draw on notions of movements, representations and practices to illustrate that markets have physical reality but are also culturally and socially encoded, and experienced through practice. It brings together empirically evidenced scholarly and practice-based works from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Bulgaria, Turkey, Lebanon, Peru, Brazil, Vietnam, South Africa and India.
This book is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students of urban geography, urban design and planning, sociology, anthropology, who are interested in the relation between place and mobility in general, and markets as ‘knots’ in the city, in particular. It also informs policy-makers how urban planning policies and design interventions for marketplaces may foster more socially inclusive and environmentally just cities.
Author(s): Ceren Sezer, Rianne van Melik
Series: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 186
City: London
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
