https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2015.5.3521 Post-Revolutionary Transformation 2015-11-03 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-ep0003-2015-103-35217 Publikationsserver der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Universitätsbibliothek Marburg The article examines the significance of informal economic practices, e.g. street vending and informal commerce, for young merchants from Ettadhamen, a neighborhood situated in the northwestern periphery of the Greater Tunis area. It further addresses cross-border trade in the Tunisian-Libyan and Tunisian-Algerian border regions in which some of these merchants are indirectly involved. Peripheralization therefore does not imply complete socio-spatial exclusion. Peripheries rather offer important, albeit limited possibilities, to acquire resources through practices that are situated in the interstices between legality and illegality. As these possibilities often avoid state regulation and control, the article also addresses the ambivalent nature of the state-society relations that shapes everyday encounters between inhabitants and state agents, especially the police. “Getting By” at the Urban Periphery: Everyday Struggles of Informal Merchants in Tunisia State-Society Relations 2015-11-03 application/pdf Urban Periphery Vol 5 (2015) application/pdf PeriodicalPart Periphery Periodical Philipps-Universität Marburg urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-ep00032 General history of Asia; Middle East https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0003/cover.png 2196-629X 2714728-9 2013 Middle East - Topics + Arguments Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0003/2015/103/cover.png https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2015.5.103 5 2015-11-03 2015 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-ep0003-2015-1037 2015 2018-01-31 Frische, Johannes Frische Johannes article Informal Commerce https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0003/2015/103/3521/3521.png English Tunisia