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 This paper provides an introductory overview to the Humanities special issue on "spatial bricolage." The individual contributions that make up the special issue are outlined and salient themes pulled out that address and respond to some the wider discussion points raised throughout this introduction. These are closely focused around the central concept of bricolage and the idea of the researcher as bricoleur. Some background context on the anthropological underpinnings to bricolage is provided, alongside methodological reflections that relate the concept to ideas of "gleaning" as a creative and performative engagement with everyday spaces as they are "found" and rehearsed in practice. A core focus on questions of method, and of autoethnographic approaches in particular, is presented alongside questions of research ethics and the policing thereof by institutional structures of disciplining and audit in the neoliberal academy. It is argued that bricolage is, among other things, a practical response to a field of practice that at times constrains as much as it allows space to roam, unimpeded, across disciplinary boundaries. From the overarching purview of spatial humanities and spatial anthropology, it is shown that discussions of bricolage and the researcher as bricoleur can help make explicit the poetics and affects of space, as well as the ethical and procedural frameworks that are brought to bear on how space is put into practice.
 
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+**Gago, Verónica. *Neoliberalism from below: Popular pragmatics and baroque economies*. Duke University Press, 2017.**
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+In Neoliberalism from Below, sociologist Veronica Gago build on and extends the conceptual category of the “baroque” to offer a critical examination of how neoliberalism is experienced, negotiated, and resisted at the grassroots level in Latin America, with a particular focus on Buenos Aires’ largest illegal open air market, La Salada. Published in 2017, the book challenges conventional narratives that depict neoliberalism solely as a top-down imposition by global financial institutions and states, arguing instead for a more nuanced understanding of neoliberalism as a complex process that is also actively shaped by the practices and strategies of those it seeks to govern. Her description of the "baroque" builds on Aihwa Ong’s (2006) definition of contemporary spatiality as “baroque ecology” and Álvaro García Linera (2001) work on “baroque modernity”, but also, albeit without direct reference, on Bolívar Echeverría's La Modernidad de lo Barroco (1998) to describe a distinctive Latin American way of experiencing and contesting coloniality and capitalism, characterized by “motley zones” of “temporal folding” (Gago 2017: 21), a “hodgepodge" (Ibid. 69) mix of adaptation, resistance, and innovation, a “simultaneous coexistence of modes” that challenges at the same time the “romantic totalities” of modernity and the competitive rationality of neoliberalism. Her own theorization of the baroque rests on two postulates: first, “informality”, which she defines “not negatively, by its relation to the normative definitions of the legal and the illegal, but positively, by its innovative character and, therefore, its dimension of praxis seeking new forms” is the “instituting source” of reality (Gago 2017: 15). And second, informality is the force that can put neoliberal value creation into crisis, as it is “a source of incommensurability”,marked by “overflow, by intensity and overlapping, of the heterogeneous elements that intervene in value creation” (ibid.). Gago juxtaposes the baroque to the more materialist concept of "popular pragmatics" to describe the concrete strategies employed by marginalized communities to navigate and sometimes exploit the opportunities and challenges presented by neoliberalism. These practices include informal economic activities, barter networks, and various forms of collective organization that operate outside or on the margins of the formal economy and legitimate citizenship. She argues that by engaging in these practices, individuals and communities not only manage to survive in a neoliberal context, but also create alternative spaces of social and economic interaction that challenge its logic.
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+**Deka, Maitrayee. *Traders and Tinkers: Bazaars in the Global Economy*. Stanford University Press, 2023.**
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+Traders and Tinkers ethnographically explores Delhi’s electronic bazaars and, using examples from similar marketplaces worldwide, presents street-level economies as distinct from capitalism. It argues rather than capitalist structure, bazaars share much more with the commons of everyday life, ethics, extra juridical infrastructure, and waste. By doing so, bazaars emerge as a critical space that can be political by engaging with the ruins and excess of capitalism without partaking in its ruthless extractive logic. Drawing on historical, anthropological, theoretical literature and field insights, this book reviews the category bazaar from colonial imagery to postcolonial and urban bazaars. It speculates their recent transformations via encounters with e-commerce platforms, mainly focusing on what the gradual disappearance would do to collective urban living and the non-elites that depend on these places for their survival.
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