Metaspace, mobility and resistance: Understanding vendors’ movement pattern as a resistive strategy in Kano, Nigeria

Name: Metaspace, mobility and resistance: Understanding vendors’ movement pattern as a resistive strategy in Kano, Nigeria
Author: Balarabe, Muhammad Kabir, Şahin, Murat

İsim	Metaspace, mobility and resistance: Understanding vendors’ movement pattern as a resistive strategy in Kano, Nigeria
Yazar	Balarabe, Muhammad Kabir, Şahin, Murat
Basım Tarihi:	2020-11
Basım Yeri	- Sage
Konu	Street vendors, Metaspace, Pedestrianisation, Rhythm, Movement, Resistance
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	0021-9096
Kayıt Numarası	6c9caed5-6357-4435-9d33-4f6a06fb9bd0
Lokasyon	Architecture
Tarih	2020-11
Örnek Metin	The street vendor's (SV) potential mobility in subverting authorities' hegemony over public space has been theorised within the contexts of urban informality and resistance. Discussions mainly revolve around movement tactics as resistance strategy while evading arrests and confiscations. This negates SV agency and limits understanding mobility in resistance. Using Bunschoten's metaspace and Cresswell's aspects of mobility, this paper employs semi-structured interviews with mobile SV, road users and pedestrians in Kano (Nigeria), to describe vendors' mobile practices and how they delay hostility from the state. Observing the interplay between vendors, users and environment, this paper identifies four types of vendor movement: focused, targeted, sporadic and self-regulatory; and examines how vendors exploit Cresswell's speed and rhythm in challenging formal urban practice hegemony through continuous operation. The paper also describes how vendors' movement affects other actors' mobilities. Finally, the paper discusses urban design implications for integrating SV within city plans, setting out potential proposals.
DOI	10.1177/0021909620905055
Cilt	55

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Metaspace, mobility and resistance: Understanding vendors’ movement pattern as a resistive strategy in Kano, Nigeria

Yazar Balarabe, Muhammad Kabir, Şahin, Murat

Basım Tarihi 2020-11

Basım Yeri - Sage

Konu Street vendors, Metaspace, Pedestrianisation, Rhythm, Movement, Resistance

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 0021-9096

Kayıt Numarası 6c9caed5-6357-4435-9d33-4f6a06fb9bd0

Lokasyon Architecture

Tarih 2020-11

Örnek Metin The street vendor's (SV) potential mobility in subverting authorities' hegemony over public space has been theorised within the contexts of urban informality and resistance. Discussions mainly revolve around movement tactics as resistance strategy while evading arrests and confiscations. This negates SV agency and limits understanding mobility in resistance. Using Bunschoten's metaspace and Cresswell's aspects of mobility, this paper employs semi-structured interviews with mobile SV, road users and pedestrians in Kano (Nigeria), to describe vendors' mobile practices and how they delay hostility from the state. Observing the interplay between vendors, users and environment, this paper identifies four types of vendor movement: focused, targeted, sporadic and self-regulatory; and examines how vendors exploit Cresswell's speed and rhythm in challenging formal urban practice hegemony through continuous operation. The paper also describes how vendors' movement affects other actors' mobilities. Finally, the paper discusses urban design implications for integrating SV within city plans, setting out potential proposals.

DOI 10.1177/0021909620905055

Cilt 55