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Popular infrastructural politics: Connecting grassroots knowledge and practice on marketplace governance

大众基础设施政治：将基层知识与市场治理实践联系起来

基本信息

批准号：
ES/W005476/1
负责人：
Leon Felipe Tellez Contreras
金额：
$ 11.12万
依托单位：
University of Sheffield
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW005476%2F1
关键词：
Popular infrastructural politics Connecting grassroots

项目摘要

Marketplaces play a vital role in the everyday life of many urban communities. They are part of the supply systems that make food and other basic staples accessible to urban residents, and in many cities around the world, they also represent significant public spaces where social connections and forms of belonging are built. Either covered or open, marketplaces have increasingly become essential infrastructures for low-income and marginalised urban residents, who rely on their affordable prices for subsistence. This contribution to people's subsistence largely depends on the vibrant economic, social, cultural, and political life of market trader communities, whose efforts to keep these commercial infrastructures working are permanent.The aim of this fellowship is to disseminate and consolidate my research findings concerning the traders' permanent efforts to keep the marketplaces alive. In doing so, the fellowship will help to better understand the long-standing contribution of grassroots organisations to infrastructure and city-making. The fellowship also aims to encourage an international conversation between academics, marketplaces' stakeholders, and practitioners about their experiences in infrastructure governance. In this way, the fellowship will facilitate knowledge exchange concerning the challenges embedded in infrastructure provision, maintenance, and transformation. Focused on these two aims, the fellowship will contribute to envision alternatives to current trends in infrastructure governance from a grassroots perspective which recognises and values the work and political experience of key workers such as market traders.For this, the fellowship builds upon my PhD research, which explored Mexico City's trader community and its public markets' network, which comprises more than 70,000 traders and 329 commercial facilities. These actors and spaces have developed what I have conceptualised as popular infrastructural politics to fight against political neglect and infrastructure abandonment and deterioration. Rather than seeing grassroots politics as discrete, fragile, or ephemeral, popular infrastructural politics seeks to capture the existence of long-standing grassroots political traditions that revolve around the rights to subsistence, infrastructure, and the city.My fieldwork revealed that market traders have been able to forge these long-standing political traditions around public markets, making popular infrastructural politics a crucial practice to defending an essential service for the marginalised. Furthermore, through popular infrastructural politics, Mexico City market traders have not only developed strategies to shape marketplaces governance at a local scale but infrastructure provision and law and policymaking at the city and national levels for the past 70 years.The proposed activities for this fellowship will take these conceptual and empirical contributions further through publications, an international online workshop, a project's website, a podcast series, and new research. These dissemination and engagement activities will seek to maximise the impact of my research findings by engaging with both theory and practice on infrastructure governance. They will also seek to inform public opinion by raising awareness of the contributions of marginalised urban actors to infrastructure provision, maintenance, and transformation and city-making in general.This research on popular politics and infrastructure governance is relevant in a context in which governments and the public have widely acknowledged the importance and value of key workers and essential services. Therefore, the activities and outputs proposed under this fellowship will not only be significant to those directly related to marketplaces, but to anyone involved or interested in the long-term grassroots struggles to keep safe and running essential urban infrastructure.

市场在许多城市社区的日常生活中发挥着至关重要的作用。它们是城市居民获得食物和其他基本斯台普斯的供应系统的一部分，在世界各地的许多城市，它们也是建立社会联系和归属感的重要公共空间。无论是封闭式还是开放式，市场已日益成为低收入和边缘化城市居民的基本基础设施，他们依靠其负担得起的价格维持生计。这种对人们生存的贡献在很大程度上取决于市场商人社区充满活力的经济、社会、文化和政治生活，他们为保持这些商业基础设施的运转而做出的努力是永久性的。这个奖学金的目的是传播和巩固我关于商人为保持市场活力而做出的永久性努力的研究成果。在这样做的过程中，奖学金将有助于更好地了解基层组织对基础设施和城市建设的长期贡献。该奖学金还旨在鼓励学者，市场利益相关者和从业者之间就他们在基础设施治理方面的经验进行国际对话。通过这种方式，该研究金将促进有关基础设施提供、维护和改造方面的挑战的知识交流。专注于这两个目标，奖学金将有助于从基层的角度来设想基础设施治理的当前趋势的替代方案，该观点承认并重视市场交易员等关键工作人员的工作和政治经验。1000名贸易商和329个商业设施。这些参与者和空间发展了我所构想的流行基础设施政治，以对抗政治忽视和基础设施的遗弃和恶化。大众基础设施政治学并不认为草根政治是离散的、脆弱的或短暂的，而是试图抓住围绕生存权、基础设施和城市的长期草根政治传统的存在。我的实地调查显示，市场商人能够围绕公共市场打造这些长期存在的政治传统，使受欢迎的基础设施政治成为捍卫边缘化群体基本服务的关键实践。此外，通过流行的基础设施政治，墨西哥城市场交易商不仅制定了战略，以塑造地方规模的市场治理，但在过去70年的基础设施提供和法律和政策制定在城市和国家一级，这项研究金的拟议活动将进一步通过出版物，国际在线研讨会，项目的网站，播客系列和新的研究这些传播和参与活动将寻求通过参与基础设施治理的理论和实践来最大限度地发挥我的研究成果的影响。他们还将寻求通过提高公众对边缘化城市行为者在基础设施提供、维护、改造和城市建设方面的贡献的认识来告知公众舆论。在政府和公众广泛认识到关键工人和基本服务的重要性和价值的背景下，这项关于民众政治和基础设施治理的研究是相关的。因此，该奖学金下提出的活动和产出不仅对那些与市场直接相关的人具有重要意义，而且对任何参与或感兴趣的长期基层斗争的人都具有重要意义，以保持安全和运行基本的城市基础设施。