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Behind the Curtain of Public Spaces: Revealing the Narratives of Corporate Street Hawking in Globalizing Accra

All street hawkers are not the same in many Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs) of the global south as often portrayed by the media and documented in extant literature. This perception has created a gap in knowledge as researchers explore street hawking activities in NICs. In this study, I investigated a new informality trend of street hawking is coming into being within the capital city of Accra, Ghana. As governance is increasingly becoming entrepreneurial, informal activities are gradually becoming formal. Formal and registered businesses are increasingly capitalizing on hawking activities to occupy public spaces. The advent of the informality trend, I term corporate street hawking opens up new issues for the political economy, labor, and urban studies. By employing semi-structured interviews with 47 street hawkers in Accra, this paper sought to investigate three broadly interrelated questions. First, how do neoliberal policies impact the production of public space in Accra? Second, is corporate street hawking a form of creative destruction? Finally, how do corporate street hawkers practice agency within Accra?

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1873543
Date12 1900
CreatorsAnsah, Hilary Ama
ContributorsAhmed, Waquar, Chatterjee, Ipsita, Oppong, Joseph R., Tiwari, Chetan
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvii, 65 pages : color illustrations, color map, Text
CoverageGhana - Greater Accra Region - Accra
RightsPublic, Ansah, Hilary Ama, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved.

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