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Conflicts over streets: The eviction of Bangkok street vendors
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2468-1341
AbstractIn 2014, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) introduced the ‘Reclaiming pavements for pedestrians’ plan. This plan, appealing to the Act on Maintaining Public Cleanliness and Public Order, promised to bring ‘safety and orderliness’ to the city, and its implementation led to the removal of street vendors. This article investigates the goals, practices, and effects of the street clean-up plan in Bangkok's old town and shows the ironic consequences of the plan: the streets became less safe. By analysing the vendors' rights, interests, and strategies for coping with the eviction that affected their livelihood, this article focuses on street vendors' survival strategies and analyses various forms of conflicts over streets: the vendors versus city authorities, among the vendors, and the vendors versus powerful gangsters, and discusses the mediation of these conflicts by a senior Buddhist monk who spoke on behalf of street vendors in negotiations with city authorities.
HighlightsStreet vendors were classified beyond the boundaries of formal and rational society.The spatial reorganisation plan ignored street vendors' livelihood and various rights.Conflicts over streets varied; they were mediated by a senior Buddhist monk.Streets need more monitoring and surveillance than before the eviction took place.Informality is not a generic feature: it has its shades.
Conflicts over streets: The eviction of Bangkok street vendors
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2468-1341
AbstractIn 2014, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) introduced the ‘Reclaiming pavements for pedestrians’ plan. This plan, appealing to the Act on Maintaining Public Cleanliness and Public Order, promised to bring ‘safety and orderliness’ to the city, and its implementation led to the removal of street vendors. This article investigates the goals, practices, and effects of the street clean-up plan in Bangkok's old town and shows the ironic consequences of the plan: the streets became less safe. By analysing the vendors' rights, interests, and strategies for coping with the eviction that affected their livelihood, this article focuses on street vendors' survival strategies and analyses various forms of conflicts over streets: the vendors versus city authorities, among the vendors, and the vendors versus powerful gangsters, and discusses the mediation of these conflicts by a senior Buddhist monk who spoke on behalf of street vendors in negotiations with city authorities.
HighlightsStreet vendors were classified beyond the boundaries of formal and rational society.The spatial reorganisation plan ignored street vendors' livelihood and various rights.Conflicts over streets varied; they were mediated by a senior Buddhist monk.Streets need more monitoring and surveillance than before the eviction took place.Informality is not a generic feature: it has its shades.
Conflicts over streets: The eviction of Bangkok street vendors
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2468-1341
AbstractIn 2014, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) introduced the ‘Reclaiming pavements for pedestrians’ plan. This plan, appealing to the Act on Maintaining Public Cleanliness and Public Order, promised to bring ‘safety and orderliness’ to the city, and its implementation led to the removal of street vendors. This article investigates the goals, practices, and effects of the street clean-up plan in Bangkok's old town and shows the ironic consequences of the plan: the streets became less safe. By analysing the vendors' rights, interests, and strategies for coping with the eviction that affected their livelihood, this article focuses on street vendors' survival strategies and analyses various forms of conflicts over streets: the vendors versus city authorities, among the vendors, and the vendors versus powerful gangsters, and discusses the mediation of these conflicts by a senior Buddhist monk who spoke on behalf of street vendors in negotiations with city authorities.
HighlightsStreet vendors were classified beyond the boundaries of formal and rational society.The spatial reorganisation plan ignored street vendors' livelihood and various rights.Conflicts over streets varied; they were mediated by a senior Buddhist monk.Streets need more monitoring and surveillance than before the eviction took place.Informality is not a generic feature: it has its shades.
Conflicts over streets: The eviction of Bangkok street vendors
Boonjubun, Chaitawat (author)
Cities ; 70 ; 22-31
2017-06-09
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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