Informal Markets and Trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus

Herausgeber: Fehlings, Susanne; Karrar, Hasan H

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book illustrates how informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus have provided space for millions of people across the region to negotiate changes in state and society in the three decades since the breakup of the Soviet Union and the emergence of successor states.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781032195827
• ISBN-10: 1032195827
• Artikelnr.: 69922580

Autorenporträt

Susanne Fehlings is Senior Researcher at the Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology, Frankfurt am Main. Her regional focus is the Caucasus. She specializes in urban and economic anthropology, the anthropology of the state, and research on bazaars, trade activity and entrepreneurship. Hasan H. Karrar is Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan. He is a specialist of China and Central Asia with a special interest in new economic and political linkages since the Cold War.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Negotiating state and society: the normative informal economies of
Central Asia and the Caucasus 2. Trading in Dordoi and Lilo bazaars:
frontiers of formality, entrepreneurship and globalization 3. The traders
of Central Bazaar, Astana: motivation and networks 4. The formal side of
informality: non-state trading practices and local Uyghur ethnography 5.
Markets at sacred sites: the globalized mobility and informality of the
Armenian religious fairs 6. The bazaar in ruins: rent and fire in
Barakholka, Almaty 7. Doing business in Yabaolu Market, Beijing:
(inter-)ethnic entrepreneurship, trust and friendship between Caucasian and
Chinese traders 8. Business 2.0: Kyrgyz middlemen in Guangzhou 9. Trade
'outside the law': Uzbek and Afghan transnational merchants between Yiwu
and South-Central Asia