Ashaiman Night Market Road - Investigating Social Order in the Night-Time Economy of a Rural Urban Market

这项研究调查了加纳首都阿克拉城市市场夜间经济中街头商贩的生活。Ashaiman夜市路全天24小时开放，位于城市的移民定居点，为调查夜间工作的城市穷人的生活提供了理想的空间。虽然对较发达国家城市地区的研究表明，夜晚是一个不同的时空，有能力从国家获得更多的自主权（Shaw，2018），但发展中国家的城市夜晚并没有受到同样程度的关注。在发展中国家的城市，大量的非正规就业和个人统治正在创造复杂的、迄今为止人们知之甚少的经济和政治动态（哈特，1973年; Paller，2014年）。通过对阿沙伊曼夜市路的民族志分析，我将探索那些在夜间工作的非正式街头小贩的生活，他们不同的互动，经历和经济活动，以及如何在街上维持或破坏社会秩序。这项研究将由加纳大学（UG）的地理和资源开发系通过在Mariama Zaami博士的指导下对夜间交易者进行的调查研究来加强。我提议推进关于夜间经济、城市发展、治理和非正规性的辩论。

This research investigates the lives of street traders in the night-time economy of an urban market in Accra, Ghana's capital city. Open 24 hours a day and situated in a migrant settlement of the city, the Ashaiman Night Market Road provides an ideal space to investigate lives of the urban poor who work through the night. Whilst research on urban areas of the more developed world have shown the night as a different time-space that has the capacity for more autonomy from the state (Shaw, 2018), urban nights in the developing world have not received the same level of attention. In cities of the developing world, high levels of informal employment and personal rule are creating complex and, as yet, poorly understood economic and political dynamics (Hart, 1973, Paller, 2014). Through ethnographic analysis of Ashaiman Night Market Road, I will explore the lives of informal street vendors who work through the night, their different interactions, experiences and economic activities, and how it is that social order is maintained or disrupted on the street. The research will be enhanced by the Geography and Resource Development department at the University of Ghana (UG) through survey research of night traders conducted with guidance from Dr Mariama Zaami. I propose to advance debates on night-time economies, urban development, governance, and informality.