Urban Economies and Spatial Governmentalities in the World Heritage City of Antigua, Guatemala

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ID2048848
AutoresWalter E Little (0000-0002-0625-5851, Albany State University, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume2
Fascículo1
Páginas42-62
Data de publicação2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEconomic Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2330-4847 • E-ISSN: 2330-4847
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/sea2.12017
OpenAlexW2161328243
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas21

As one of 725 UNESCO World Heritage Properties, Antigua, Guatemala, is subject to local international regulations related to building codes and how streets and public places are occupied. These regulations are discussed within the theoretical framework of spatial governmentality to explore that relationship between governance and Maya street vendors' economic practices. I situate the scholarly discussion of spatial governmentality within a specific economic context by highlighting how street economies are affected by what Foucault calls the "era of 'governmentality,'" especially in an ethnographic context. In this article, I argue that horizontal and vertical forms of governmentality affect the economic practices of street vendors within Antigua's sociopolitically constructed spaces. Understanding how spatial governmentalities work in a particular place helps explain why street economies persist and why new ones emerge. In Antigua's case, a new mobile form of street vending emerged because of newly implemented municipal regulations and policing priorities

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