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Reclaiming Their Place in the City: Narratives of Street Food Vendors of Bengaluru During the COVID Crisis

In: Reimagining Prosperity

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  • Puja Guha

    (Azim Premji University)

  • Annapurna Neti

    (Azim Premji University)

  • Roshni Lobo

    (Azim Premji University)

Abstract

Street vending is considered a lucrative livelihood especially among migrants coming to Indian cities. The pandemic-induced lockdowns in India brought out the precarity of these street-based livelihoods. This paper focuses on street food vendors of Bengaluru. Through narratives from in-depth interviews conducted across the city, it tries to capture the struggles of street vendors as they navigate the pandemic. With the streets being completely shut down with the lockdowns, these vendors lost their means of livelihood. Many of them who were living in the city for over a generation were forced to move back to their native villages. Those who managed to stay back had sunk into debt. Even when the lockdown was eased and streets became accessible, the vendors’ struggles continued—to get back their customer base and to reclaim their physical space on the street which, during the prolonged lockdown, was appropriated for other purposes.

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  • Puja Guha & Annapurna Neti & Roshni Lobo, 2023. "Reclaiming Their Place in the City: Narratives of Street Food Vendors of Bengaluru During the COVID Crisis," Springer Books, in: Arash Fazli & Amitabh Kundu (ed.), Reimagining Prosperity, chapter 0, pages 237-257, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-19-7177-8_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-7177-8_14
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