Street Traders and “Good Officers”: Crackdowns as a Relational Form of Urban Governance in Nairobi
In central Nairobi, crackdowns on illegal street trading by officers from the local authorities are a daily occurrence. Based on an ethnographic study of encounters between street traders and officers during crackdown operations in and around the Nairobi CBD, this article argues that crackdowns work...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Journal of Urban Research
2018-03-01
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Series: | Articulo: Journal of Urban Research |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/articulo/3391 |