Eurasia in the Making - Revival of the Silk Road - Kaiser, Markus
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The trade-routes connecting Europe and East Asia have fascinated scholars, traders, and adventurers throughout the centuries. Although its modern incarnation may lack the romantic aura of the fabled »Silk Road«, the recent and rapid growth of private trade and commodity exchange has contributed significantly to a revival of the Silk-Road-trade. This takes the form of long-distance petty trade across the newly established borders of states that were formerly part of the Soviet Union as well as into other neighboring countries - including Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China - but also…mehr

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The trade-routes connecting Europe and East Asia have fascinated scholars, traders, and adventurers throughout the centuries. Although its modern incarnation may lack the romantic aura of the fabled »Silk Road«, the recent and rapid growth of private trade and commodity exchange has contributed significantly to a revival of the Silk-Road-trade. This takes the form of long-distance petty trade across the newly established borders of states that were formerly part of the Soviet Union as well as into other neighboring countries - including Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China - but also India, Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia. A far-flung network of trading connections has been established and, at the time of the fieldwork, thousands of petty traders were carrying their goods with them in trucks, buses, and planes, traveling once more along the routes of the old Silk Road, largely unrecognized by governments and unnoticed by foreign economic advisors. The traders, however, transport patterns of consumerism, lifestyles, knowledge, beliefs, political visions, and so on with their material goods, and in this way transsocietation along the trading networks transforms local societies.Like the old »Silk Road,« the modern version is an agglomeration of different routes with different starting points, running through Central Asia and connecting Asia and Europe; manifest evidence of the continuity in trading patterns on the Eurasian continent.
Autorenporträt
Markus Kaiser (Dr. rer. soc.) holds the position of president of the Kazakh-German University (DKU) in Almaty, Kazakhstan. In 2015 he served as scientific coordinator of the BMBF-financed competence network Crossroads Asia and as senior researcher at the Centre for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn. Previous positions include visiting professorships in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Eurasian National University (ENU), Astana, and the Faculty of Sociology of the St. Petersburg State University (SPbGU) as well as the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) in Bishkek. He was research fellow and senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology, University of Trier and senior lecturer in Development Studies in the Faculty of Sociology and research fellow in the Institute of Global Society Studies, both at the Bielefeld University. From 2001 until 2004, he served as director of the DAAD-funded Centre for German and European Studies at the St. Petersburg State University.