Mapping Legalities: Urbanisation, Law and Informal Work

Author:   Thomas Coggin (University of the Witwatersrand) ,  Roopa Madhav
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   284
Publication Date:   19 July 2024
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Author:   Thomas Coggin (University of the Witwatersrand) ,  Roopa Madhav
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.730kg
ISBN:  

9781032471587


ISBN 10:   1032471581
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   19 July 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Introduction 1. Urban regulation for self-employed informal workers Sally Roever & Michael Rogan 2. Disambiguating legalities: Street vending, law, and boundary work in Mexico City Tiana Bakić Hayden 3. Power dynamics and the regulation of street vending in the urban space: The law on the books and the law on the ground in Accra and Dakar Teresa Marchiori & Pamhidzai Bamu 4. Differential effects of vending formalisation in New York City, USA Ryan Thomas Devlin 5. Local government regulations and the dispossession of urban informal vendors in Delhi, India Ankit K. Singh & Roshni Yadav 6. Impact of new planning policies on sustenance and inclusivity of street trading in Dhaka: A critical review of Detailed Area Plan 2016-2035 Nabanita Islam 7. Advocating for a Livelihood-Centric Master Plan: Learnings from Delhi Malavika Narayan, Shalini Sinha, Avi Singh Majithia 8. Turbulent transformations and urban undesirables: Revanchist urban transition and street-based sex work in Bangalore Neethi P & Anant Kamath 9. Overlooked mobility: Domestic workers commuting in Bogotá, Medellín, and Sao Paulo Valentina Montoya Robledo 10. New perspectives on the work of waste pickers: the construction of a “recycling node” in Mercedes, Argentina Verónica V. Puricelli 11. Pursuing aspirations for decent sanitation work: How informal workers navigate the universe of rules that shape sanitation practices in urban Africa Julian Walker; Adriana Allen; Ibrahim Bangura; Pascale Hofmann; Wilbard Kombe; Nelly Leblond; Tatu Limbumba; Catarina Simões Mavila; Claudy Vouhé; Julia Wesely 12. Urban informal workers’ Covid-19 compliance: Evidence on social capital and enforcement politics from Indonesia Ying Gao 13. Informal Work and the Social Function of the City: A Framework for Legal Reform in the Urban & Spatial Environment Thomas Coggin

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Thomas Coggin is a senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research is concerned with the ways in which property law systemically structures the appropriation, access and use of everyday space in the contemporary urban and spatial environment. He is a co-coordinator of the International Research Group on Law & Urban Space and a member of the Researcher & Statisticians Constituency of WIEGO. He is an alumnus of the Managing Global Governance programme of the German Development Institute, and he holds a Doctor of Juridical Sciences (SJD) degree from Fordham University. Roopa Madhav is a consultant with the Law Programme WIEGO and was the joint coordinator of a three-country study on ‘Law and Informal Economy’ for WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing). She is also Professor of Law (Research) at the National Law University Delhi. She was a research fellow at the International Environmental Law Research Centre, working on a project mapping water law reforms in the country. She has been faculty at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, visiting faculty at the National Law School and Tamil Nadu National Law University. She is co-editor of Water Law for the Twenty-First Century – National and International Aspects of Water Law Reform in India, Routledge, 2009, and Water Governance in Motion: Towards Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Water Laws 2010, New Delhi. She holds a PhD (Law) from SOAS, University of London, LLM from New York University and a BA/LLB from National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

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