Raumaneignungen, Regeln und Profite in Dhakas Feld des Straßenhandels – Sozialgeographische Erklärungsversuche auf Grundlage von Bourdieus Theorie der Praxis
The paper discusses street vendors' spatial appropriations and the governance of public space in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The much debated question in social geography how people's position in social space relates to their position in physical space (and vice versa) stands at the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Publications
2014-04-01
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| Series: | Geographica Helvetica |
| Online Access: | http://www.geogr-helv.net/69/37/2014/gh-69-37-2014.pdf |
| Summary: | The paper discusses street vendors' spatial appropriations and the
governance of public space in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The much
debated question in social geography how people's position in social space
relates to their position in physical space (and vice versa) stands at the
centre of the analysis. I use Bourdieu's Theory of Practice to discuss this
dialectic relation at two analytical levels. On a micro-political level it
is shown that the street vendors' social positions and the informal rules of
the street structure their access to public space and thus determine their
"spatial profits". At a macro-political level, it is not only the
conditions inside the "field of street vending" that matter for the
hawkers, but also their relation to the state-controlled "field of power".
The paper demonstrates that Bourdieu's key ideas can be linked to current
debates about spatial appropriation and informality. Moreover, I argue that
Bourdieu's theory builds an appropriate basis for a relational, critical,
and reflexive social geography in the Urban South. |
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| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |