ABSTRACT Collective organizing represents one way in which street and market vendors in urban sub-Saharan Africa advocate their interests and strive towards more inclusive urban policies. Several studies have shown both the opportunities vendors associations may have for vendors as well as their pitfalls. This paper contributes to this discussion by addressing how vendors have used the platforms of a national organization of vendors associations to develop support networks across space of importance for their daily work. Through conducting semi-structured interviews with vendors and vendor representatives in Zambia, this paper examines these connections that have emerged between individual vendors located in different urban areas in Zambia. The paper adopts an assemblage approach to show the work that is needed, and how different social and material aspects are involved in the production of these connections. The results indicate that vendors rely on these connections in their everyday lives to discuss challenges and solutions related to their working environments and to explore business opportunities, and that mobile phones contribute to these new emerging spaces for self-organization. Results are discussed through relating these assemblages of vendors to the spaces organized and managed by vendors associations.

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超越协会：赞比亚厂商之间新兴的自我组织空间

摘要集体组织是撒哈拉以南非洲城市的街头小贩和市场摊贩倡导自己的利益并努力制定更具包容性的城市政策的一种方式。多项研究表明，卖方协会可能给卖方带来的机会及其陷阱。本文通过解决供应商如何使用供应商协会全国组织的平台来为他们的日常工作提供跨重要空间的支持网络，为此次讨论做出了贡献。通过与赞比亚的供应商和供应商代表进行半结构化访谈，本文研究了位于赞比亚不同城市地区的各个供应商之间出现的这些联系。本文采用组​​合方法来显示所需的工作，以及这些联系的产生如何涉及不同的社会和物质方面。结果表明，供应商在日常生活中依靠这些连接来讨论与其工作环境相关的挑战和解决方案，并探索商机，而移动电话为这些新兴的自我组织空间做出了贡献。通过将供应商的这些集合与供应商协会组织和管理的空间相关联来讨论结果。