The Politics of Street Food
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In Bangladesh, the sale of food in public space is often contested: Street food is needed, but not wanted. 100,000 street vendors sell dishes, snacks, fruits, and beverages in the megacity of Dhaka. Street food is important for urban food security as mobile labourers and the poor rely on cheap, readily available and nutritious food. The authorities argue that encroachments of streets and footpaths are illegal and disorderly, and that street food is unhygienic. They therefore evict the vendors regularly. But the hawkers are somewhat protected through the informal rules of the street. While some of them are highly vulnerable to poverty and police raids, most navigate well through these contested governance regimes and can successfully sustain their livelihoods.
In this e-book, different conceptual perspectives are integrated on the basis of Bourdieu's Theory of Practice. It provides fresh insights into the role of street food in urban food system and contributes to a deeper understanding of the vulnerabilities of the urban poor, the informal governance of public space, and the dominant discourses on street food. From a relational and critical perspective it captures "the politics of street food" and sketches innovative solutions towards fair street food governance.
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2 - LIST OF TABLES [Seite 10]
3 - LIST OF FIGURES [Seite 11]
4 - LIST OF MAPS [Seite 13]
5 - LIST OF BOXES [Seite 13]
6 - LIST OF CASE STUDIES [Seite 13]
7 - ACKNOWLEDGMENTS [Seite 14]
8 - SUMMARY [Seite 15]
9 - ZUSAMMENFASSUNG [Seite 17]
10 - 1 INTRODUCTION [Seite 20]
10.1 - 1.1 IMPRESSIONS FROM DHAKA'S FIELD OF STREET FOOD [Seite 20]
10.2 - 1.2 MOTIVATION FOR THIS STUDY [Seite 21]
10.3 - 1.3 STRUCTURE OF THIS STUDY [Seite 27]
11 - 2 WITH BOURDIEU TOWARDS A RELATIONAL, CRITICAL, AND REFLEXIVE SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY [Seite 31]
11.1 - 2.1 RELEVANCE OF BOURDIEU'S THEORY FOR SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY [Seite 31]
11.2 - 2.2 BOURDIEU'S SIX CENTRAL PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL RESEARCH [Seite 33]
11.3 - 2.3 BOURDIEU'S THEORY OF PRACTICE: SIX CENTRAL THEOREMS [Seite 35]
11.4 - 2.4 INTERIM CONCLUSION: NAVIGATING THROUGH FIELDS, ARENAS AND NETWORKS [Seite 48]
12 - 3 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: STREET FOOD GOVERNANCE [Seite 52]
12.1 - 3.1 STREET VENDING: A HIGHLY VISIBLE INFORMAL PRACTICE [Seite 52]
12.2 - 3.2 INFORMALITY AS A PRACTICE OF CONTESTED GOVERNANCE [Seite 54]
12.3 - 3.3 THE APPROPRIATION OF URBAN PUBLIC SPACE [Seite 78]
12.4 - 3.4 SOCIAL PRACTICES AND VULNERABILITY [Seite 86]
12.5 - 3.5 STREET FOOD VENDING AND THE URBAN FIELDS OF FOOD [Seite 95]
12.6 - 3.6 CONCEPTUAL SYNTHESIS: CONTESTED STREET FOOD GOVERNANCE [Seite 108]
13 - 4 RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY [Seite 116]
13.1 - 4.1 RESEARCH APPROACH: IMAGINING THE FIELD OF STREET FOOD [Seite 116]
13.2 - 4.2 STUDY SITES: INVESTIGATING ARENAS OF STREET VENDING [Seite 122]
13.3 - 4.3 APPLIED METHODS: ANALYSING THE FIELD OF STREET FOOD [Seite 123]
13.4 - 4.4 INTERIM CONCLUSION: RELATIONAL, CRITICAL, AND REFLEXIVE RESEARCH IN SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY [Seite 135]
14 - 5 THE SOCIAL FIELD OF STREET FOOD IN DHAKA [Seite 137]
14.1 - 5.1 THE MEGACITY OF DHAKA [Seite 138]
14.2 - 5.2 THE EMERGENCE OF THE PRESENT FIELD OF STREET FOOD [Seite 145]
14.3 - 5.4 THE STATE AND THE FIELD OF STREET FOOD [Seite 159]
14.4 - 5.5 INTERIM CONCLUSION: ILLEGALISATION AND MARGINALISATION OF THE FIELD OF STREET FOOD [Seite 176]
15 - 6 STREET FOOD VENDING AND URBAN FOOD SECURITY [Seite 178]
15.1 - 6.1 FIELDS OF FOOD AND THE FIELD OF LABOUR [Seite 179]
15.2 - 6.2 DHAKA'S FIELD OF FOOD CONSUMPTION [Seite 189]
15.3 - 6.3 STREET FOOD CONSUMPTION IN DHAKA [Seite 196]
15.4 - 6.4 SITES OF STREET FOOD CONSUMPTION IN DHAKA [Seite 209]
15.5 - 6.5 INTERIM CONCLUSION: STREET VENDING CONTRIBUTES TO FOOD SECURITY [Seite 214]
16 - 7 INSIDE THE FIELD: STYLES OF VENDING, SOCIAL POSITIONS AND VULNERABILITY [Seite 216]
16.1 - 7.1 DISTINCTIONS IN DHAKA'S FIELD OF STREET FOOD [Seite 217]
16.2 - 7.2 ENTERING THE FIELD, CLAIMING ACESS TO THE ARENAS [Seite 221]
16.3 - 7.3 WORKING AS A STREET FOOD VENDOR IN DHAKA [Seite 244]
16.4 - 7.4 THE DIFFERENTIAL VULNERABILITY OF STREET FOOD VENDORS [Seite 255]
16.5 - 7.5 SOCIAL RECOGNITION INSIDE THE FIELD OF STREET FOOD [Seite 267]
16.6 - 7.6 INTERIM CONCLUSION: SECURING POSITIONS IN FIELDS AND ARENAS [Seite 270]
17 - 8 CONTESTED STREET FOOD GOVERNANCE: STREET POLITICS AND EVICTIONS [Seite 272]
17.1 - 8.1 STREET POLITICS: MODES OF GOVERNANCE IN ARENAS OF STREET VENDING [Seite 273]
17.2 - 8.2 ENCOUNTERS AND CONTESTATIONS WITH THE STATE [Seite 284]
17.3 - 8.3 STREET VENDORS' VULNERABILITY TO POLICE EVICTIONS [Seite 295]
17.4 - 8.4 INTERIM CONCLUSION: THE DANCE OF COMMAND AND CONTROL [Seite 324]
18 - 9 TOWARDS FAIR STREET FOOD GOVERNANCE [Seite 329]
18.1 - 9.1 POLICY GUIDELINES FOR STREET VENDING IN BANGLADESH [Seite 330]
18.2 - 9.2 ARE FAIR PRACTICES OF STREET FOOD GOVERNANCE POSSIBLE? [Seite 332]
19 - REFERENCES [Seite 345]
20 - ANNEX [Seite 368]
