Informal Markets and Trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus

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Susanne Fehlings (Frobenius Inst. for Research in Cultural Anthropology, Frankfurt, Germany) Hasan H. Karrar (Lahore Univ. of Management Sciences, Pakistan)

Informal Markets and Trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus

Susanne Fehlings (Frobenius Inst. for Research in Cultural Anthropology, Frankfurt, Germany), Hasan H. Karrar (Lahore Univ. of Management Sciences, Pakistan)

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Routledge
12 April 2022

Regional studies; International trade

Series: Central Asian Studies

This edited book introduces new research on informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus. The research presented in this volume is based on recent field research in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Beijing, Guangzhou, Yiwu and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. The nine chapters in this book illustrate 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.

Collectively, the book suggests that informality should be seen as a normative order for polities in Central Asia and the Caucasus for three reasons: (1) The inability – or unwillingness – of the states to measure commercial transactions. (2) The highly personalized nature of small business operations that rest on networking and social relations, oral agreements and trust. (3) Markets and bazaars being embedded within states in which clientelism frequently thrives.

This book is a significant new contribution to the study of trade and informal markets in Central Asia and the Caucasus, and will be a great resource for academics, researchers and advanced students of Sociology, History, Politics, Business, Economics, Social Anthropology and Geography.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Central Asian Survey.

Edited by: Susanne Fehlings (Frobenius Inst. for Research in Cultural Anthropology Frankfurt Germany), Hasan H. Karrar (Lahore Univ. of Management Sciences, Pakistan)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032195810
ISBN 10: 1032195819
Series: Central Asian Studies
Pages: 158
Publication Date: 12 April 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.