‘Conditional’ Citizens? Hawkers in the Streets (and the Courts) of Contemporary India

Street vendors have often been seen as archetypal examples of informality in cities—constituting what Chatterjee (2004), for instance, has called political society—indispensable to the city, but continually having to negotiate the law, their claims to citizenship perpetually tenuous. Using Chatterje...

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Main Author: Kunal Joshi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Journal of Urban Research 2018-02-01
Series:Articulo: Journal of Urban Research
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/articulo/3383