“Territory as order and chaos”: The power relations between street vendors, public authorities and traders

Authors

  • Luciano Mendes Universidade de São Paulo - Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz” Av. Pádua Dias, 11, 13418-900 Piracicaba, SP, Brasil
  • Neusa Rolita Cavedon Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Keywords:

Território, Relações de poder, Camelôs, Poder público, Comerciantes

Abstract

This article aims to identify and understand the power relationships built over time between the street vendors, the government and the formal traders in the city of Três Lagoas in Mato Grosso do Sul, a city 340 km away from the state capital. The theoretical framework that underpins this study focuses on the notion of territory. This theoretical option finds support in the fact that the territory is directly linked to relations of power. However, there is no talk of territory without regard to the categories of time and space. Territory arises from human action on the binomial space / time, so that they are as social constructions. The method used to carry out the investigation was ethnography. Through this method it was possible to show the power relationships between street vendors, government agencies and traders, changes in the meanings of urban dynamics. Thus, it was possible to infer that the territorial boundaries congregate delimitations and also symbolic breaks, with implications in the construction of urban itineraries.

Keywords: territory, power relations, street vendors, public authorities, traders.

Author Biographies

Luciano Mendes, Universidade de São Paulo - Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz” Av. Pádua Dias, 11, 13418-900 Piracicaba, SP, Brasil

Graduação em Administração pela Universidade Federal de Lavras (2003), mestrado em Administração - Uem/Uel pela Universidade Estadual de Maringá (2006) e doutorado em Administração pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2011). Atualmente é professor adjunto da Universidade Estadual de Maringá.

Neusa Rolita Cavedon, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutora e Mestre em Administração pelo
PPGA/EA/UFRGS, Mestre em Antropologia Social pelo PPGAS/UFRGS. Professora Associada da Escola de Aministração da UFRGS. Pesquisadora do CNPq.

Downloads

Published

2015-04-13

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2015): JAN/MAR

Section

Articles

License

I grant the journal BASE the first publication of my article, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license (which allows sharing of work, recognition of authorship and initial publication in this journal).

I confirm that my article is not being submitted to another publication and has not been published in its entirely on another journal. I take full responsibility for its originality and I will also claim responsibility for charges from claims by third parties concerning the authorship of the article.

I also agree that the manuscript will be submitted according to the journal’s publication rules described above.