“Getting By” at the Urban Periphery: Everyday Struggles of Informal Merchants in Tunisia Johannes Frische Post-Revolutionary Transformation Urban Periphery Informal Commerce State-Society Relations Tunisia 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. Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg 2015 2015-11-03 2018-01-31 Text article urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2015-103-35213 eng 2714728-9 5 1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/article/download/3521/3659 10.17192/meta.2015.5.3521 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2015/103/3521