Mobilizing the streets
The role of food vendors in urban life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12800270 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noah Allison (0000-0003-1123-7487, New School), Krishnendu Ray (0000-0002-3947-8111, New York University, corresponding author), Jaclyn Rohel (The Scarborough Hospital) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 2-15 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Food Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1552-8014 • E-ISSN: 1751-7443 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15528014.2020.1860454 |
| OpenAlex | W3126368776 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 10 |
This paper introduces a special issue on food vending in the city. It contextualizes a collection of papers on street food and markets across time and global space that authors submitted before the 2020 pandemic. Focusing specifically on the mobilization of urban space for food provisioning and microenterprise, we theorize markets beyond the singular narrative of capital accumulation. Given the particular moment of its publication – which comes almost one year after the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus to be a pandemic in March 2020 – our introduction probes the impact of COVID-19 on food vendors as well as on the cities that sustain them. Drawing on examples from cities such as New Delhi, New York City, Los Angeles and beyond, we comment on how the pandemic has unleashed threats to livelihoods and liveliness, and we also draw attention to the possibility of new social and economic opportunities in this moment of crisis, including innovative uses of urban space
Agriculture · Business · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Food security · Geography · Global city · Livelihood · Narrative · Pandemic · Political science · Provisioning · Sociology · Engineering · Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability · Law · Medicine · Organic Food and Agriculture · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
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| Citations per year | 3.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |