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Introduction Turn of the last millennium shifts in the global political economy have altered production processes and market policies, giving rise to new research questions concerning the experiences of ongoing economic transformations across the world. For one, changes in economic and political contexts have altered the world profoundly since the “informal sector” term was coined in the early 1970s (Hansen ). From Africa, Central and South America, across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, including many large cities in the North, informality has become a pervasive way of doing business not only or always in opposition to the state but also operating along with it and within it, in this way contributing to its informalization. In a series of recent publications, Anyana Roy has developed the idea of informality as an organizing logic (e.g., Roy ) that constantly challenges the norms undergirding legal rules by unmapping spatial demarcations and zoning laws, among other things, in urban settings, continuously changing, negotiating, marking off or reconstructing the rules of the game. It is relevant to recognize that Roy developed the notion of unmapping in her study of Calcutta's urban fringe when she realized that the disappearance of maps from official practice http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Introduction

HANSEN, KAREN TRANBERG
City & Society , Volume 26 (2) – Aug 1, 2014
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Abstract

Turn of the last millennium shifts in the global political economy have altered production processes and market policies, giving rise to new research questions concerning the experiences of ongoing economic transformations across the world. For one, changes in economic and political contexts have altered the world profoundly since the “informal sector” term was coined in the early 1970s (Hansen ). From Africa, Central and South America, across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, including many large cities in the North, informality has become a pervasive way of doing business not only or always in opposition to the state but also operating along with it and within it, in this way contributing to its informalization. In a series of recent publications, Anyana Roy has developed the idea of informality as an organizing logic (e.g., Roy ) that constantly challenges the norms undergirding legal rules by unmapping spatial demarcations and zoning laws, among other things, in urban settings, continuously changing, negotiating, marking off or reconstructing the rules of the game. It is relevant to recognize that Roy developed the notion of unmapping in her study of Calcutta's urban fringe when she realized that the disappearance of maps from official practice

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