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The activity of street vendors as a practice in the urban context
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyze the street vendors activity using the discussions and concepts of city and
territory. This analysis takes into account ethnographic studies carried out in the hawker market, as well as the
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proposed two shifts, as follows: the displacement of the idea of city-concept for urban practices, and according
to the demysti ication of the logic established in the restructuring process, which veri ies functional street ven-
dors activity marginalized as a practice. This requires an analysis of the concepts of city, as well as operation
and possibilities of the street vendor activity in between these concepts, in order to subsidize, at the end of this
essay, some implications for the logic previously established and establish assumptions and prejudices about
operation of such trading activity. A irst step will be discussion of the concepts and implications of city street
vendor activity in this inset. The second step will be a deepening of discussions about the city in the logic of
urban practices, seeking to emphasize the importance of observing the microterritory. Third will be the pre-
sentation of ethnographic studies in the developed peddler market. Finally, the fourth step is an analysis of the
ethnographic data discussed in this work, taking into account the discussions of city and territory, allowing the
offset to the idea of urban practice, and the demysti ication of logic in the restructuring process.
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