Ashaiman Night Market Road - Investigating Social Order in the Night-Time Economy of a Rural Urban Market

阿赛曼夜市路——城乡市场夜经济社会秩序考察

基本信息

批准号：
2602270
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
University of East Anglia
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2602270
关键词：
Ashaiman Night Market Road Investigating

项目摘要

This research investigates the lives of street traders in the night-time economy of an urban market in Accra, Ghana's capital city. Open 24 hours a day and situated in a migrant settlement of the city, the Ashaiman Night Market Road provides an ideal space to investigate lives of the urban poor who work through the night. Whilst research on urban areas of the more developed world have shown the night as a different time-space that has the capacity for more autonomy from the state (Shaw, 2018), urban nights in the developing world have not received the same level of attention. In cities of the developing world, high levels of informal employment and personal rule are creating complex and, as yet, poorly understood economic and political dynamics (Hart, 1973, Paller, 2014). Through ethnographic analysis of Ashaiman Night Market Road, I will explore the lives of informal street vendors who work through the night, their different interactions, experiences and economic activities, and how it is that social order is maintained or disrupted on the street. The research will be enhanced by the Geography and Resource Development department at the University of Ghana (UG) through survey research of night traders conducted with guidance from Dr Mariama Zaami. I propose to advance debates on night-time economies, urban development, governance, and informality.

这项研究调查了加纳首都阿克拉城市市场夜间经济中街头商贩的生活。阿夏曼夜市路全天 24 小时开放，位于城市的移民安置点，为调查通宵达旦的城市贫民的生活提供了理想的空间。虽然对较发达世界城市地区的研究表明，夜晚是一个不同的时空，有能力从国家那里获得更多自主权（Shaw，2018），但发展中国家的城市夜晚并未受到同等程度的关注。在发展中国家的城市中，大量的非正规就业和个人统治正在创造复杂且至今仍知之甚少的经济和政治动态（Hart，1973；Paller，2014）。通过对阿夏曼夜市路的民族志分析，我将探讨通宵营业的非正式街头小贩的生活，他们不同的互动、经历和经济活动，以及街道上的社会秩序是如何维持或扰乱的。加纳大学 (UG) 地理和资源开发系将通过在 Mariama Zaami 博士的指导下对夜市交易者进行的调查研究来加强这项研究。我建议推进关于夜间经济、城市发展、治理和非正规性的辩论。