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Ana Maria Vargas Falla

Ana Maria Vargas Falla

Director of first and second cycle studies

Ana Maria Vargas Falla

Organising Everyday Resistance : An Ethnographic Study of Rickshaw Drivers in Bogotá.

Author

  • Olga Cristina Ana Maria Vargas Falla

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.

Publishing year

2021

Language

English

Pages

369-384

Publication/Series

Bulletin of Latin American Research

Volume

40

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Law and Society

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1470-9856