This article offers an examination of the official rules that participate in the organization of street vending activities in Latin American cities. It does so by explaining the legal assemblages that serve to define how, where, and by whom certain Latin American public spaces may be occupied, and by empirically illustrating the way in which the legal status of street vendors—that is, whether or not they are willing or able to get official recognition to work in these public spaces—affects the way they use and occupy the urban landscape. The information gathered here suggests that securing access to official permission to work on the streets does significantly affect vendors' locations as well as their working modalities. The subsequent analysis also illustrates a significant relationship between vendors' legal status and specific interactions with urban authorities and other actors. These findings suggest that, although law cannot prevent the unauthorized occupation of public spaces for commercial purposes, it could certainty avert the reproduction of other illegal practices and, perhaps most importantly, protect the urban poor from the vulnerability they face before state and nonstate violence.

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(Un)Authorized: 拉丁美洲街头自动贩卖机监管研究

本文提供了对参与拉丁美洲城市街头自动售货活动组织的官方规则的审查。它通过解释用于定义某些拉丁美洲公共空间可能被占用的方式、地点和人员的法律组合，并通过经验说明街头小贩的法律地位的方式——也就是说，他们是否愿意或能够获得官方认可在这些公共空间工作——影响他们使用和占据城市景观的方式。此处收集的信息表明，获得正式的街头工作许可确实会显着影响供应商的位置及其工作方式。随后的分析还说明了供应商之间的重要关系 法律地位以及与城市当局和其他参与者的具体互动。这些发现表明，虽然法律无法防止出于商业目的未经授权占用公共空间，但它可以肯定地避免其他非法行为的再现，也许最重要的是，保护城市贫民免受他们在国家和非国家暴力面前面临的脆弱性。