Este artículo propone un análisis de la relación entre el derecho como campo de discursos y prácticas, y la formación y acumulación de capitales simbólicos entre los vendedores informales semiestacionarios de Bogotá (Colombia). Tal relación puede visibilizar la consolidación de una reivindicación laboral a partir de la apropiación y reinterpretación estratégica de ciertas categorías y recursos jurídicos como justificantes de una actividad económica realizada en el espacio público. Dicha actividad contraviene los intereses de la Alcaldía Distrital (formalización) y de la Policía Metropolitana (recuperación del espacio público). Para ello, los resultados de un trabajo de campo etnográfico que versa sobre el análisis conceptual de la jurisprudencia de la Corte Constitucional y sobre la realidad cotidiana de los vendedores en sus espacios de trabajo demuestra una sub...

This article proposes an analysis of the relationship between law as a field of discourses and practices, and the formation and accumulation of semi-stationary street vendors’ symbolic capitals in Bogotá (Colombia). Such relationship can show the consolidation of a labor vindication through the appropriation and strategic reinterpretation of certain juridical categories and resources seen as supporting arguments for the exercise of an economic activity in the public space that opposes the District’s Government’s (formalization) and Metropolitan Police’s (recovery of public space) interests. For this purpose, the results of an ethnographic fieldwork that analyze the conceptual development of the Constitutional Court’s jurisprudence and the daily reality of the vendors in their work spaces show a subjective construction given by the juridical appropriation, the social networks a...

This article proposes an analysis of the relationship between law as a field of discourses and practices, and the formation and accumulation of semi-stationary street vendors’ symbolic capitals in Bogotá (Colombia). Such relationship can show the consolidation of a labor vindication through the appropriation and strategic reinterpretation of certain juridical categories and resources seen as supporting arguments for the exercise of an economic activity in the public space that opposes the District’s Government’s (formalization) and Metropolitan Police’s (recovery of public space) interests. For this purpose, the results of an ethnographic fieldwork that analyze the conceptual development of the Constitutional Court’s jurisprudence and the daily reality of the vendors in their work spaces show a subjective construction given by the juridical appropriation, the social networks a...