From quiet to bold encroachment: contesting dispossession in Accra's informal sector
From quiet to bold encroachment: contesting dispossession in Accra's informal sector
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10.1080/02723638.2016.1191792
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2017-01-01
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3.8
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Gillespie, Tom
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作者：
Gillespie, Tom
本文利用阿塞夫·巴亚特的“安静的侵占”理论来分析加纳阿克拉街头小贩和擅自占地者的政治能动性。它展示了加纳首都的擅自占地者和街头小贩如何从事日常的安静侵占行为，他们占据城市空间作为自我繁殖的手段。然后，它探讨了侵占者如何采取集体行动，以捍卫他们对城市空间的访问从国家领导的剥夺。在竞争性党派政治的背景下，城市空间的管理已高度政治化，小贩和棚户区组织已被授权寻求与当局积极接触和对话。巴亚特认为，专制环境下的非正式无产阶级渴望自治和不受国家机构的影响，因此，加纳多党制的特殊性为大胆侵犯城市空间创造了可能性。
This article draws on Asef Bayat's theory of quiet encroachment to analyse the political agency of street hawkers and squatters in Accra, Ghana. It demonstrates how squatters and street hawkers in Ghana's capital city are engaged in everyday practices of quiet encroachment, whereby they occupy urban space as a means to reproduce themselves. It then explores how encroachers take collective action to defend their access to urban space from state-led dispossession. In a context of competitive partisan politics where the management of urban space has become highly politicized, hawkers and squatters organizations have been empowered to seek active engagement and dialogue with the authorities. Whereas Bayat argues that the informal proletariat in authoritarian contexts desire autonomy and invisibility from the institutions of the state, therefore, the particular characteristics of Ghana's multiparty system have created the possibility for bold acts of encroachment on urban space.