Wardrop (2006) Private Cooking, Public Eating: Women street vendors in South Durban

Abstract: The diverse cultural spaces of eThekwini (Durban), South Africa, reflect the accommodations and daily cultural negotiations made by the residents of a city whose demographies represent the complex inheritances of interactions between a long history of colonial segregation, nearly 50 years of formal apartheid policies, rapid modernisation, and global networks of migration, production and exchange. This article exploresContinue reading “Wardrop (2006) Private Cooking, Public Eating: Women street vendors in South Durban”

Setsabi (2008), The Politics of Street Trading in Maseru, Lesotho

DOI: 10.1007/s12132-008-9033-x

Abstract: Research on the urban informal sector in Lesotho is scarce and largely descriptive, focussing on the demographic characteristics of street traders and their enterprises. Extant research has, therefore, assumed that the politics of street trading and regulation by the state, especially the eviction of street traders from the streets, do not matter.  Continue reading “Setsabi (2008), The Politics of Street Trading in Maseru, Lesotho”