Street Vending as Ethical Citizenship in Urban Indonesia
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https://doi.org/10.3138/anth.581.A05Keywords:
citizenship, urban studies, street vending, ethics, IndonesiaAbstract
Street traders in many Indonesian cities face social and legal constraints because they are deemed to be hampering the city's order and cleanliness. I describe how a group of vendors adopted the state's concern over greenery and developed their own “green” project. They also called themselves the rakyat kecil (small people) and argued that they were the poor underdogs being mistreated by the corrupt government. This moral positioning is best seen as an expression of what I am calling “citizenship as ethics,” in which the legitimacy of being in a public space is validated through discourses and actions deemed “good” or “right” in the local public imagination.
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