The existing literature on the relationship between regulators and street vendors remain
fragmented and limited to specific countries and contexts. This article presents a narrative …

Informality is one of the major challenges facing urban policy makers across sub-Saharan
Africa. Responses to informality can be viewed along a continuum from violent repression …

In developing states of Southeast Asia, street vendors play a significant but frequently
unappreciated role in both the vibrancy of public spaces as well as the informal economy …

This article presents the concept of politically-induced displacement (PID) as a new
theoretical construct for analyzing displacement processes during regeneration of urban …

This article examines traders' resistance practices in Kumasi, Ghana and their significance
for changing urban governance in Africa. Conceptually, we introduce “activism” as a new …

This article scrutinizes the consequences that arise when current modes of urban
governance fail to consider the micro-geographies of market trading during urban …

A confluence of history and modernity, household economics, and cultural influences
coalesce to make defining the “typical” Senegalese family a formidable task. Senegalese …

The urban morphology and social and economic topography of Nairobi is sharply
distinguished, heavily fortified and distinctively regulated. This form of urban territorial …

This paper explores how young men of rural origin weave a resource base for social mobility
in the urban informal economy by combining strings of employment, strands of …

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 …