Moving marketplaces: Understanding public space from a relational mobility perspective

Research on outdoor retail markets has focused on the diverse ways in which markets constitute public spaces where diversity and social inclusion coexist with conflict and reproduction of inequalities. This approach has prompted existing studies to focus on place-politics in terms of group- and spat...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cities 2022-08, Vol.127, p.103721, Article 103721
Hauptverfasser: van Eck, Emil, Watson, Sophie, van Melik, Rianne, Breines, Markus, Dahinden, Janine, Jónsson, Gunvor, Lindmäe, Maria, Madella, Marco, Menet, Joanna, Schapendonk, Joris
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Zusammenfassung:Research on outdoor retail markets has focused on the diverse ways in which markets constitute public spaces where diversity and social inclusion coexist with conflict and reproduction of inequalities. This approach has prompted existing studies to focus on place-politics in terms of group- and spatially-bounded processes. In this paper, we take a relational mobility perspective to show that markets are not delineated and fixed entities. By approaching them as spaces in-flux, we are sensitive to the ways markets are continuously made and remade anew each operating day. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in four European countries (the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom), we argue that 1) the practice of mobility is key to understand how markets come into being; and 2) a mobility approach opens up new questions regarding (unequal) power relations in the production of public space as it articulates the ‘relational politics of (im)mobilities’. Although the locality of markets tends to be emphasised as a sign of quality in governmental and public imaginations, we illustrate that the coming-into-being of markets depends on social, material and institutional relations coming from elsewhere. •The locality of outdoor retail markets should be understood as a dynamic and active process of temporal emplacement•Understanding temporal emplacement entails the study of translocal networks and mobilities•The translocal networks and mobility trajectories of market traders are imbued with unequal power relations•Opportunities for equal participation in public space are tied to the translocal networks and mobilities of people
ISSN:0264-2751
1873-6084
DOI:10.1016/j.cities.2022.103721