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Drawing on recent developments in field theory, this article analyzes the struggle for survival of Sao Paulo’s street vendors in the face of a massive eviction campaign. I conceive of street vending as a social field divided into two unequal categories—licensed street vendors and unlicensed street vendors—and show that responses to the campaign varied along group lines. Unlicensed peddlers either abandoned the field or drew on local networks to continue peddling under harsher conditions, whereas licensed street vendors relied on well-established ties to actors in the political field. After these ties proved ineffective, licensed street vendors survived thanks to the intervention of a non-governmental organization (NGO) that activated the judicial field and mobilized the legal capital vested in the licenses. The linkage role performed by this actor with cross-field networks and expertise shows the strategic import of interfield relations, which replicate and reinforce the unequal distribution of assets inside the field.Sobre la base de la evolucion reciente de la teoria de campo, este trabajo analiza la lucha por la supervivencia de los vendedores ambulantes de Sao Paulo ante una campana masiva de desalojo. Concibo la venta ambulante como un campo social dividido en dos categorias desiguales—vendedores ambulantes con licencia y los vendedores ambulantes sin licencia—y demuestro que las respuestas a la campana varian a lo largo de las lineas del grupo. Vendedores ambulantes sin licencia o bien abandonaron el campo o utilizaron las redes locales para continuar la venta ambulante en las condiciones mas severas, mientras que los vendedores ambulantes con licencia se basaron en los lazos establecidos para los actores en otros campos. Despues de estos vinculos resultaron ineficaces, los vendedores ambulantes con licencia sobrevivieron gracias a la intervencion de una ONG que activo el campo judicial y movilizo a la capital legal conferida a sus licencias. El papel realizado por este actor con experiencia muestra la importancia estrategica de las relaciones inter-campo que reproduce y refuerza la desigual distribucion de los bienes en el interior del campo.

The Politics of Field Destruction and the Survival of São Paulo’s Street Vendors