Lima's street vendor politics are documented in an archive of over 1,000 pages compiled between October 2011 and September 2012. The archive includes newspaper clippings, organizational records, and municipal by-laws from the district of La Victoria, focusing on three municipal administrations from 1992 to 2002. Sally Roever created this collection as part of a research project on the informal economy.
Use Cases
- Analyzing municipal policy evolution based on ordinances, resolutions, and decrees.
- Studying organizational dynamics of street vendors based on records from vending organizations.
- Examining media portrayal and public discourse on informal trade based on newspaper clippings.
- Mapping conflicts over public space access based on records of regulatory attempts.
- Comparing political strategies across different municipal administrations based on archival materials.
Strengths
- Archive comprises over 1,000 pages of materials.
- Focuses on a specific district (La Victoria) and time period (1992-2002).
- Includes a variety of source types: laws, organizational records, and background documents.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- The archive is a compiled collection of documents; its structure for analysis is not predefined.
Provenance
- Source
- Roever, Sally via QDR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Compiled from fieldwork, including newspaper clippings, organizational records, and municipal documents.
- Time Range
- 1992-2002
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-10-20 19:58:55; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- La Victoria district, Lima, Peru