Recrafting in/formality, leveraging public market trade in Baguio, Philippines

  • B. Lynne Milgram OCAD University, Toronto, Canada

Abstract

With growing urbanization, Southern governments often privilege large-scale developments that frustrate urbanites’ livelihood needs. In Baguio, Philippines public marketers counter such top-down disenfranchisement by operationalizing formal “advocacy” and informal “everyday” politics. That authorities negotiate agreements to accept payments for marketers’ infractions, I argue, materializes complex and complicit intersections of formal/informal and legal/illegal practices.
Published
2017-12-31
How to Cite
Milgram, B. L. (2017) “Recrafting in/formality, leveraging public market trade in Baguio, Philippines”, Anuac, 6(2), pp. 69-75. doi: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-3072.
Section
Forum: In/formalization