Street commerce as a 'problem' in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo

  • Hirata D
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The aim of this article is to describe how street commerce that has come to be seen as a "problem" in two major Brazilian cities: Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The text concentrates on two periods - 1980 to 1990 and 2000 to 2010 - during which governmental intervention in street commerce radically changed, examining the flux of people and merchandise and the forms of this intervention.O objetivo do artigo é descrever como o mercado do comercio ambulante vem sendo construído como "problema" em duas cidades brasileiras: Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo. O texto centra-se em dois momentos de transformação das formas de incidência governamental e da conformação dos mercados do "comercio ambulante", entre os anos 1980/1990 e 2000/2010. Observa-se especialmente, as modalidades de circulações de pessoas, de mercadorias e de práticas governamentais.

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Hirata, D. (2014). Street commerce as a “problem” in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, 11(1), 96–117. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1809-43412014000100004

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