Ana Maria Vargas Falla
Studierektor för grundutbildningen
Organising Everyday Resistance : An Ethnographic Study of Rickshaw Drivers in Bogotá.
Författare
Summary, in English
Workers in the informal transport sector are often exposed to multiple forms of workplace violence, for instance by the police and their colleagues. Through a collection of rich ethnographic stories and using the concept of popular resistance, this article investigates how and under what conditions rickshaw drivers in Bogotá resist violence in their workplace. The results reveal that rickshaw associations have been essential in articulating acts of everyday resistance to the legal ban on this activity, such regulating routes, fees and stops. However, associations have created new forms of oppression, being labelled as mafia-like organisations, showing that resistance can also translate into new forms of domination. Contrary to the argument that everyday resistance is uncoordinated, this article shows that acts of everyday resistance can be organised by actors that switch between different individual and collective strategies. Thus, organisations can provide a framework to resist the law on an everyday basis.
Publiceringsår
2021
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
369-384
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Bulletin of Latin American Research
Volym
40
Issue
3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Ämne
- Law and Society
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1470-9856