Street food vendors in Indonesia: Conflicting representations under COVID-19

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dc.contributor.authorMilligan, Maeve
dc.contributor.supervisorFox, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-06T22:50:23Z
dc.date.available2023-09-06T22:50:23Z
dc.date.copyright2023en_US
dc.date.issued2023-09-06
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Pacific and Asian Studiesen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions on public life had a significant impact on street food vendors in Indonesia, with reports suggesting that vendors’ incomes decreased by 50% on average during this period. In the wake of the pandemic, scholars and organizations published statements and rolled out programs to support vendors or correct vendors’ behavior in light of changing requirements relating to the pandemic. These interventions aimed, among other things, to reduce the risk of vendors spreading the COVID-19 virus. They also hoped to support vendors as they navigated state-imposed restrictions on street food vending and changes to customers’ spending behavior. Statements and programs relating to street food vendors were informed by assumptions about street food vendors, such as that street food vendors help low-income consumers access food, contribute positively to employment and the economy, practice poor food hygiene, and are negatively impacted by state policies restricting street food vending. This thesis explores how these assumptions compare with street food vendors’ self-understanding. It also asks how assumptions about street food vendors informed interventions in street food vending before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing on 39 interviews with street food vendors, as well as program documents and public statements from relevant organizations, this thesis examines how street food vendors and the scholars and organizations involved in vendors’ activities represented vendors and the challenges they faced during the pandemic. It concludes that street food vendors understood themselves and their experiences differently from pertinent scholars and organizations. This thesis suggests that often taken-for-granted understandings of street food vendors appearing in academic literature and commentary from pertinent organizations should be considered critically, and the ways in which these representations inform interventions in street food vending should be carefully examined.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/15355
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectstreet fooden_US
dc.subjectstreet food vendingen_US
dc.subjectstreet food vendoren_US
dc.subjectIndonesiaen_US
dc.subjectfood securityen_US
dc.subjectrepresentationen_US
dc.subjectSatpol PPen_US
dc.subjectAPKLIen_US
dc.subjectUN agenciesen_US
dc.subjecthygieneen_US
dc.subjectemploymenten_US
dc.subjectrestrictions on street food vendingen_US
dc.subjectSouth Tangerangen_US
dc.subjectinformal economyen_US
dc.subjectstreet vendoren_US
dc.subjectfood safetyen_US
dc.titleStreet food vendors in Indonesia: Conflicting representations under COVID-19en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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