 From Meatballs to Souvenirs: Street Vendors’ Strategies of Resilience During Revitalisation in YogyakartaIwan Suharyanto, Irina van Aalst and Ilse van Liempt Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 2025, vol. 116, issue 5, 621-636 Abstract: While most studies on street vendors and revitalisation focus on displacement and relocation, this article considers the resilience strategies of Malioboro’s street vendors who decided to stay put. It is shown that street vendors who decided not to relocate from Malioboro, Yogyakarta, had different strategies of resilience. Spatio‐temporal strategies were identified that circumvent restrictions around place and time to sell. Economic resilience strategies were linked to the type of products sold in order to better fit new standards around how the street should look and feel. Cultural strategies that were encountered had to do with the way products were displayed, the clothes vendors wore, and the display of fixed prices. Finally, informal political strategies were developed to prevent eviction. Some street vendors organised themselves to resist relocation in Yogyakarta. Despite these efforts, in 2022, the street vendors of Malioboro were all relocated indoors, away from the street. Date: 2025 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:tvecsg:v:116:y:2025:i:5:p:621-636 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie is currently edited by Jan van Weesep More articles in Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie from Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG |
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