INFORMAL MARKET WORLDS

Informal markets are a central feature of the twenty-first centurys first tumultuous years. Both part of and response to the homoge nising forces of globalisation, they shape a volatile shadow system of heterogeneous micro-locations. This reader maps this new kind of urban system emerging from the multi-directional movements of ongoing deregulations and realignments. Offering a global perspect ive on the conflicted realities of informal marketplaces from survival activities of the urban poor to transnational clandestine t rade netwo...[Read more]