Everyday life resistance in a post-colonial global city : A study of two illegal hawker agglomerations in Hong Kong

Everyday life resistance in a post-colonial global city : A study of two illegal hawker agglomerations in Hong Kong

informal economy, trade, market, world city, global city, Bourdieu Pierre, urban sociology

This thesis is an interpretative ethnographic of two illegal hawker agglomerations sustained in the post-colonial Hong Kong. The focus of concern is on researching the everyday life resistance of the urban underclass living in a polarizing global city with a renewed Bourdieuian’s theory of practice. The persistence and resistance of illegal hawking and petty trading has denoted a reoriented street/informal politics countering the regulation and upsurge of the neo-liberal governance from the present entrepreneurial state. These groups of local and trans-local underclass have struggled tacitly and tactically in the margin to gain their independence and autonomy albeit under tight state control. During the research process, the author has identified a multiple layers of informal economic markets overlapping within a poor community located in the inner urban area.

Leung, Chi Yuen

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2008

Pun, Ngai. Supervisor

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Thesis

http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/3615

http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/939

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