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来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.39,Issue2,P.167-189

语言

英文

关键字

Informality; governmentality; planning; inclusion; integration; Zimbabwe; Southern Africa; GOVERNMENT; EMPLOYMENT; ZIMBABWE; GHANA; LAW

作者单位

[Kamete, Amin Y.] Univ Glasgow, Sch Social & Polit Sci, Urban Studies, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland. Kamete, AY (reprint author), Univ Glasgow, Sch Social & Polit Sci, Urban Studies, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland. E-Mail: amini.kamete@glasgow.ac.uk

摘要

This paper argues that many of the official attempts to integrate the urban informal economy into the mainstream economy are fundamentally flawed. An unpacking of the integrative agenda as pursued by planning and other governmental practices reveals that integration, as currently practiced, does not herald the mainstreaming of the informal economy. Drawing on research in Zimbabwe and evidence from other countries in Southern Africa, I argue that what we witness is a sinister stripping away of the lifeblood of informality. This malicious form of integration entails crippling Faustian bargains. In the end, this pernicious assimilation insidiously does away with that which makes informality a livelihood haven for the majority of urbanites. I conclude that the duplicitous integration is unworkable and leaves the big questions of inclusion untouched, hence the persistence of the problem of informality.