Marketplaces: Movements, Representations and Practices [Paperback]

1. Introduction, 2. Hanois street vendors on the move: Itinerant vending tactics and mobile methods in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 3. Rhythmic encounters in an Indian marketplace, 4. Spectral analysis of rhythms in urban marketplaces: A day in Esat Marketplace of Ankara (Turkey), 5. Adaptable market-making in eThekwini: Exploring practices of street trading in a South African urban space, 6. La Boqueria, the mirror of what Barcelona represents : An analysis of public policy and the commodification of food markets, 7. The fluidity of a liminal marketplace: Souq Al-Ahad, Beirut, 8. Marketplace decline heads east: Neoliberal reform, socio-spatial sorting and patterns of decline at Sofias public markets, 9. Governments representation of Belo Horizontes public markets: The (ir)reconcilable grammars of economic pragmatism and social justice, 10. Lima markets beyond commerce: Challenges and possibilities of common food spaces in periods of crisis, 11. Markets and belonging: Untangling myths of urban versus small-town life, 12. The role of mobility and transnationality for local marketplaces, 13. The multi-scalar nature of policy im/mobilities: Regulating 'local' markets in the Netherlands, 14. Afterword

This edited volume portrays marketplaces from a mobility perspective as dynamic and open entities consisting of flows of people, goods and ideas.

Ceren Sezer is a Research Associate at the Institute for Urban Design and European Urbanism of Aachen University, Germany. She is joint editor of Marketplaces as an Urban Development Strategy (2013), Public Space and Urban Justice (2017) and the author of Visibility, Democratic Public Space and Socially Inclusive Cities (2020).

Rianne van Melik is an Associate Professor in Urban Geography at the Institute of Management Research at Radboud UnivelS(