Young female traders' quest for viability in Zimbabwe's politicised urban spaces
Young female traders' quest for viability in Zimbabwe's politicised urban spaces
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年轻女性商人在津巴布韦政治化的城市空间中寻求生存能力
DOI：
10.1080/13676261.2023.2248897
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Mate R
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Mate R
本文分析了津巴布韦哈拉雷年轻女商人的生存斗争。它通过处理性别和代际权力动态，为关于可行性的辩论做出了概念性贡献，体现了青年人如何在不同的生活领域（称为“跨领域思考和行动”）建立联系并追求目标。本文展示了哈拉雷的年轻女商人如何在城市威权主义的背景下思考和行动，通过谈判具有挑战性的经济条件和统治党结盟的经纪人，他们在其中销售商品的城市空间占主导地位。基于在COVID-19大流行期间持续两年多的定性研究，该研究显示了对年轻女性在公共事务中的声音和表现的性别期望如何塑造女性二手服装交易商的代理权。2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，经济危机的大背景加剧了贸易商的不稳定性，要求年轻女性无视封锁措施。然而，他们在挑战（“反对”）执法部门和政治掮客方面的代理权仍然受到限制。我们认为，性别权力动态相交的概念，青年在津巴布韦的背景下，并注入威权政治，创造尝试在可行性塑造的风险计算。
This article analyses the viability struggles of young female traders in Harare, Zimbabwe. It makes a conceptual contribution to debates about viability, which captures how young people connect and pursue aims across diverse life domains (referred to as ‘thinking and acting across’), by addressing gender and generational power dynamics. The article demonstrates how young female traders in Harare are thinking and acting across the domains of work and politics in a context of urban authoritarianism, by negotiating the challenging economic conditions and ruling party-aligned brokers that dominate the urban spaces in which they sell their wares. Based on over two years of qualitative research, which continued during the COVID-19 pandemic, the study shows how gendered expectations around young women's voice and presentation in public affairs shapes the agency of female second-hand clothes traders. The wider context of economic crisis, exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, deepened the precarity of the traders, requiring young women to defy lockdown measures. However, their agency with respect to challenging (‘acting against’) law enforcement and political brokers remained constrained. We argue that gendered power dynamics intersect with notions of youth in the Zimbabwean context and infuse authoritarian politics, creating attempts at viability shaped by risk calculation.