The initialization of market the poor and survival politics

This paper aims to find out how the poor met their needs in the market during tough times post- economic liberation era. This qualitative study draws upon theories of everyday life and by ethnographic method. Findings indicate that market development in poor communities made marginal groups, facing a rigid and brutal market, take shelter in more flexible and customer-friendly market for survival; this is something the researcher calls initialization of market, which is a way of realizing needs in a market consistent with the insecure and unstable conditions of the poor. However, the liberation shocks left a set of paradoxes and resistances in poor communities, which in turn led to further weakening of the intimate market’s scope of activities.