Rush and Relax: the Rhythms and Speeds of Touting Perishable Products on a Ghanaian Roadside

Gabriel Klaeger

Mobilities, 2012, vol. 7, issue 4, 537-554

Abstract: In this article, I provide ethnographic insights into the lifeworld of roadside entrepreneurs who sell bread to motorists and travellers passing through Ofankor, a suburb of Accra traversed by one of Ghana’s main arterial roads. I show that the daily work of Ofankor’s hawkers in and alongside traffic is marked by their continuous engagement with differential speeds, rhythms and related time frames. These are at the same time constitutive of the hawkers’ entrepreneurial tactics, their corporeal-kinetic practices, including what I call ‘dromocentric’ movements, and the distinct socialities that emerge from their interactions on this urban road section that forms an intrinsically moving workplace.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718936

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