L’institutionnalisation des marchés informels à Paris : une situation d’entre-deux dans le gouvernement des espaces publics
In Paris, the development of informal markets sometimes gathering up to hundreds of people in public space raises the question of the institutionnalization of informal activities in a European metropolis governed by a socialist municipality. This paper questions the territorial and scalar issues of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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UMR 245 - CESSMA
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Carnets de Géographes |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cdg/387 |
| Summary: | In Paris, the development of informal markets sometimes gathering up to hundreds of people in public space raises the question of the institutionnalization of informal activities in a European metropolis governed by a socialist municipality. This paper questions the territorial and scalar issues of political controversies about these informal markets. It analyses the "in-between" situation created in the governement of public spaces by the defense of a "right to the city" for these precarious vendors and a local management of these markets through the mobilization of the "biffins" - street vendors of recovery goods, after a former name for scavengers. The point is to show how the controversies about informal markets lead to a case-by-case and at the margin treatment of this urban survival economy, which reveals the limites of promoting the local as the right scale for alternative. |
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| ISSN: | 2107-7266 |