Negotiating access to contested urban spaces: Street traders’ resistance against exclusionary practices in Harare, Zimbabwe
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Abstract
In Global South cities, urban space is highly contested between street traders and city authorities. In Harare, urban authorities respond to traders appropriating public spaces with penalties, harassment, and displacement, aiming to eliminate perceived nuisances and uphold a modern city ideal. However, these repressive practices are constantly negotiated, challenged, and resisted by street traders through ‘infiltrating and corrupting’ the system, defiance and civil disobedience, subaltern surveillance, decoyization and deception, evasive resistance, and ‘nomadic’ manoeuvring. This study demonstrates that, rather than being powerless, street traders in the City of Harare (Zimbabwe) are active agents who negotiate and challenge urban exclusion to assert their right to the city. By examining these everyday acts of resistance, this study contributes to scholarly debate on how the subaltern negotiates and resists spatial exclusion in Global South cities, highlighting the resilience and capacity of marginalized groups to challenge dominant power structures.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it