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  title info:
    title: Tanzania's informal economy
    sub title: the micro-politics of street vending
  name:
    name part: Malefakis, Alexis
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: conference publication
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: An in-depth study of street trading in Dar es Salaam, revealing the hidden dimensions of the city's thriving informal economy.
  table of contents: Cover; About the author; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Looking beyond the informal economy; Social theoretical foundations of the study; Sociality; Narrative; Spatial practice; Temporality; Chapter overview; -- 1. Street vending in Dar es Salaam; A brief history of struggle; After independence: resuming colonial policies; Street vendors in Dar es Salaam today: a desire for change; Ethnographic fieldwork with mobile street vendors; -- 2. Urban perspectives on rural pasts: a narrative of 'being Wayao' in Dar es Salaam; From the village to the kijiweni
  table of contents: Narrating Wayao-nessBeing Wayao in the city; -- 3. The micro-politics of sociality among Wayao street vendors; Sources of uchawi; Pinned down by 'dirty magic': the story of Rahim; On the flip-side of uchawi: replicating kinship-like relations; -- 4. Too familiar to trust: a paradox of social proximity; The case of the bank account; Theories of trust; Trust among self-organised workers; Opacity and trust; -- 5. The creative potential of shoe vending: practices and emerging sociality; -- 6. Carrying knowledge through the streets: old shoes as meaningful objects; The temporal organisation of Karume Market
  table of contents: Mapping shoes onto the streetsGrandmothers and city girls; Knowing how to act; -- 7. Sharing is daring: cooperation at the kijiweni; Sharing tools; Sharing profits; Practices of entrustment in the absence of trust; -- 8. Creating a market where there is none: the spatial practices of street vending; Finding your way through the streets; The rhythms of street vending; Talking to 'witches' and 'whites': categorising customers; Use the force: street vending with an attitude; The market as an epistemic landscape; Conclusion: Stuck in an extended present; Notes; References; Index
  note: Alexis Malefakis.
  note: Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.
  note: Also published in printing.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-tz---
  subject:
    topic: Enterprise zones
    geographic: Tanzania
  subject:
    topic: Street vendors
    geographic: Tanzania
  subject:
    topic: Vending stands
    geographic: Tanzania
  subject:
    topic: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
  classification: HF5459.T34 M35 2019eb
  classification: 381
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    title info:
      title: Tanzania's informal economy
    name:
      name part: Malefakis, Alexis.
    origin info:
      publisher: London, UK : Zed Books Ltd, [2019]
    identifier: (OCoLC)1041007337
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  identifier: 9781350222854
  identifier: 9781786994509
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  identifier: 1786994526
  identifier: 178699450X
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  location: physicalLocation
  access condition: Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.
  record info:
    record content source: N
    record creation date: 210311
    record change date: 20240130220949.1
    record identifier: in00004767708
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng