Abstract
On 21 January 2023, the Socio-Legal Review and Centre for Civil Society jointly organised a one-day symposium on “Street Vendors and the Law: Practices, Hierarchies, and Economic Citizenship in New Delhi.”1 The symposium was an attempt to explore the reality and life of the law that regulates street vending in India. The symposium discussed not only the Street Vendors Act, 20142 but also local statutes on town planning and municipal regulations, law enforcement through the police, and the judicial system of the country. The aim of the symposium was to interrogate how these legal frameworks operate along with the informal and non-legal practices of street vendors to produce the reality of street vending in India. To this end, the symposium comprised three panels on the following themes: (I) Formal and Informal Networks, Norms, and Practices; (II) Urban Hierarchies and Spatial Contests; and (III) Street Vendors as Economic Citizens.
Custom Citation
'Report of the Symposium on Street Vendors and the Law: Practices, Hierarchies, and Economic Citizenship' (2023) 19(2) Socio-Legal Review 1.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.55496/FYWW6174
