Africa

Challenging city imaginaries: Street traders’ struggles in Warwick Junction

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Organizing on the Streets: A Study of Reclaimers in the Streets of Cape Town

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Foreign Street Traders in Inner City Durban: Survey Results and Policy Dilemmas

Innovative Practices for the Urban Informal Economy

An expert group meeting was convened to discuss case studies of regulatory inform of the urban informal sector in six developing country...

“I carry people and goods across the border for a living”

Informal cross-border couriers (bomalayisha) have transported people and goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa for several decades.

Changing Social Policy: The Child Support Grant in South Africa

Description from HSRC Press: An important historical record of one part of post-apartheid South Africa’s policymaking, Changing Social...

Dislocating modernity: Identity, space and representations of street trade in Durban, South Africa

South Africa’s cities have experienced dramatic changes over the past decade. Cities are now home to a multiracial population, and have been...

Trading Our Way Up: Women Organizing for Fair Trade

This book details the findings of the multicountry action research project Women Organizing for Fair Trade, funded by the Dutch Ministry...

The multiple sites of urban governance: Insights from an African city

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What’s Informal About the Informal Sector? Culture and the Construction of Development in Sub-Saharan Africa