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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Main Author: Brigitte Dragsted-Mutengwa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Journal of Urban Research 2018-03-01
Series:Articulo: Journal of Urban Research
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/articulo/3391