Kristina Graaff is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

Noa Ha is Researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University of Berlin.

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Introduction: Street Vending in the (Neoliberal) City: A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy
Kristina Graaff and Noa Ha

PART I: RESPONDING TO URBAN AND GLOBAL NEOLIBERAL POLICIES

Chapter 1. Flexible Families: Latina/o Food Vending in Brooklyn, New York
Kathleen Dunn

Chapter 2. Street Vending and the Politics of Space in New York City
Ryan Thomas Devlin

Chapter 3. Creative Resistance: The Case of Mexico City’s Street Artisans and Vendors
Veronica Crossa

PART II: STREET VENDING AND ETHNICITY

Chapter 4. Metropolitan Informality and Racialization: Street Vending in Berlin’s Historical District
Noa Ha

Chapter 5. Selling Memory and Nostalgia in the Barrio: Mexican and Central American Women (Re)Create Street Vending Spaces in Los Angeles
Lorena Muñoz

Chapter 6. Ethnic Contestations over African American Fiction: The Street Vending of Street Literature in New York City
Kristina Graaff

PART III: THE SPATIAL MOBILITY OF URBAN STREET VENDING

Chapter 7. The Urbanism of Los Angeles Street Vending
Kenny Cupers

Chapter 8. Selling in Insecurity—Living with Violence: Eviction Drives against Street Food Vendors in Dhaka, and the Informal Politics of Exploitation
Benjamin Etzold

Chapter 9. The Street Vendors Act and Pedestrianism in India: A Reading of the Archival Politics of the Calcutta Hawker Sangram Committee
Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay

PART IV: HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF STREET VENDING

Chapter 10. Street Vending, Political Activism, and Community Building in African American History: The Case of Harlem
Mark Naison

Chapter 11. The Roots of Street Commerce Regulation in the Urban Slave Society of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Patricia Acerbi

Notes on Contributors