Fieldnotes from Bhar Lazreg: Research Methods from the Margins of Tunis
Résumé
Every city comes with spaces that we tend to describe with the same series of adjectives—“criminal,” “dangerous,” or “disorder.” To seem neutral, we might call these spaces and its people “informal” (for example, the informal economy or informal housing), but it does not take the negative association away from these spaces. These spaces may be slums in the midst of the city, or make-shift residential areas erected on the outskirts of a city in lands that were used for agriculture.