Assembling street vending
Assembling street vending
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集结街头贩卖
作者：
Mojgan Taheri Tafti
目前关于全球南方城市街头贩卖的学术研究主要集中在街头小贩和他们对国家复仇主义和排他性政策的抵抗政治上。本文通过考虑更广泛的代理人（除了街头摊贩本身）的策略和之间的变化联系，以及他们塑造和重塑街头摊贩作为一种表演和多样化构成的实践的方式，从这些文献中汲取并试图做出贡献。本文考察了包括各种国家实体、店主和街头小贩在内的代理人之间的内在关系，以及城市建筑、基础设施和政策，如何塑造了德黑兰三个不同地点街头小贩在地理上不均匀和空间上不同的形式、强度和分布。为了提出这一论点，本文利用集合思维来构建城市街头贩卖被（重新）属地化和去属地化的过程和轨迹。本文表明，超越对国家和摊贩之间权力关系的二分分析，对于更好地理解街头贩卖实践至关重要，因为街头贩卖是支离破碎的、多尺度的、多地点的协会网络的局部衔接，这些网络被缝合到城市的不同地方，形成了街头贩卖的不同社会物质形态。
Current scholarship on street vending in cities of the global south have mainly focused on street vendors and their politics of resistance against the state’s revanchist and exclusionary policies. This article draws from, and seeks to contribute to, this literature by considering the strategies of, and the shifting associations between, a broader range of agents – in addition to street vendors themselves – and the ways they shape and reshape street vending as a performed and diversely constituted practice. The article examines how the embedded relationships between agents including various state entities, shopkeepers and street vendors, as well as city buildings, infrastructure and policies, have been shaping geographically uneven and spatially differentiated forms, intensity and distribution of street vending in three different locations in Tehran. To make this argument, the article draws on assemblage thinking for framing the processes and trajectories through which urban street vending is being (re)territorialised and de-territorialised. The article demonstrates that moving beyond the dichotomised analysis of power relationships between the state and vendors matters for a better understanding of street vending practices as the local articulations of the fragmented, multi-scaled and multi-sited networks of associations that are stitched into different places in the city and shape diverse socio-material formations of street vending.