dc.contributor.author | Omoegun, Ademola O. | |
dc.contributor.author | Mackie, Peter | |
dc.contributor.author | Brown, Alison | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-24T11:55:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-02-24T11:55:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Omoegun, Ademola O; Mackie, Peter and Brown, Alison (2019) The Aftermath of Eviction in the Nigerian Informal Economy, International Development Planning Review (2019), 41, (1), 107–128. DOI https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2018.30 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16378 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article examines the mechanisms through which street traders claim and maintain access to urban space in the aftermath of eviction – a phenomenon that affects poor urban workers across the global South. Whilst much is known about the immediate impacts of evictions, there has been limited consideration of the post-eviction, longer-term responses of traders. Drawing on primary research in Lagos, Nigeria, this article analyses street trader responses to eviction, with a focus on their strategies for claiming access to space. The study highlights the importance of both individual and collective actions in re-establishing a foothold in public space. However, maintaining access to public space proved to be more problematic, with collective action severely diminished through the co-option of trader associations by urban authorities. This new knowledge has the potential to strengthen the resilience of traders to future evictions and their potentially devastating impacts. | |
dc.publisher | Liverpool University Press | |
dc.title | The Aftermath of Eviction in the Nigerian Informal Economy | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.rights.holder | Liverpool University Press | |
dc.identifier.externaluri | http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2018.30 | |
dc.identifier.ag | ES/H034692/1 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3828/idpr.2018.30 | |