Governing street trading in contemporary cities. Anatomy of the policy instruments used by the City of Johannesburg in the post-apartheid era

The paper interrogates how street trading is governed in contemporary cities of the South, based on the example of Johannesburg. It excavates policy choices made by municipal officials and politicians, understood through the set of policy instruments (not only policy documents, institutions and tool...

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Published in:Urban research & practice 2018-10, Vol.11 (4), p.396-425
Main Author: Bénit-Gbaffou, Claire
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Apartheid
Architecture, space management
Cities
Economic models
Geography
Humanities and Social Sciences
Johannesburg
local government
policy instruments
Political science
Politicians
Post-apartheid era
Rhetoric
street trading
Trading
urban management
Urban studies
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Summary:The paper interrogates how street trading is governed in contemporary cities of the South, based on the example of Johannesburg. It excavates policy choices made by municipal officials and politicians, understood through the set of policy instruments (not only policy documents, institutions and tools, but also non-tools) that they have framed and used for almost two decades, beyond public rhetoric that is arguably misleading. The paper provides a critical analyzis of policy instruments for governing street trading, scantly absent from existing literature, it also brings back into the urban studies debate issues of municipal officials' agency, political objectives and policy choices.
ISSN:1753-5069
1753-5077
DOI:10.1080/17535069.2017.1374447