Within the past decade, there has been a surge of interest in investigating the dynamics of
informal street vending, motivated by the need to address economic, social, and political …

While most countries in Africa have revised the planning laws they inherited from their
colonial experience, research shows that the attitudes and practices of politicians and …

Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken
toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of writing, fragments are signatures of urban …

The rapidly expanding urban population in intertropical African cities that lives in poverty in
informal settlements poses major problems for urban health, safety and risk reduction. Such …

This article centers marginal organizational actors—the disenfranchised of the Global South—
to remedy their theoretical erasure and disrupt the Anglo-American grand narrative of …

This paper explores the strategies of social movement organizations working in towns and
cities of the global South to secure justice for their members and address poverty and …

This paper argues that retail spaces, such as marketplaces, are increasingly becoming sites
of urban contestation. The globalisation of retail, online shopping and the redevelopment of …

each other, mobilising social and material infrastructures to sustain flexible spatial practices.
Their ability to adjust is differentiated, however, and their subjectivities cannot be read from …

Street vending is vilified and extolled in equal measure. Recently, however, city authorities
have sought to “sanitize” the urban space in their efforts to create the ideal city. This study …

This paper is a longitudinal study that uses insights from postcolonial feminism to explore
women's entrepreneurship as a political form of feminist organizing for social change in …