Traders, informal trade and markets between the Caucasus and China / Susanne Fehlings.
Fehlings, Susanne, author.
2022
HD2346.C28
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Title Traders, informal trade and markets between the Caucasus and China / Susanne Fehlings.
Author Fehlings, Susanne, author.
ISBN 9789811952050 (electronic bk.)
9811952051 (electronic bk.)
9789811952043
9811952043
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5205-0
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xv, 349 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-19-5205-0 doi
Call Number HD2346.C28
Dewey Decimal Classification 382.09475
Summary Dr. Fehlings' book is an important step towards a historical economic anthropology of everyday economic action, because she succeeds excellently in making this everyday action transparent in its diversity and its historical plasticity. Werner Plumpe, Professor of Economic History, Goethe University, Germany Why and how do Georgian and Chinese traders travel across Eurasia without any formal institutional support and what consequences are there of such 'globalization from below' for economy, markets, sociality and materiality? Susanne Fehlings' ethnography skilfully explores the structural conditions, background and everyday lives of such traders and businessmen, scrutinizes their activities, narratives and logics of action and offers a rich anthropological discussion embedded in historical, legal and political contexts. Lale Yalcn-Heckmann, Docent for Social Anthropology, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic The book is about the economic practices of traders and businesspeople from the Caucasus and China who work in local bazaars in Tbilisi and Beijing. It describes their activities, their motivations, their socio-cultural backgrounds, their work environments, and their interactions with one another. Contributing to a broader debate on the nature and role of informal economic practices in the post-Soviet periphery and processes of "globalization from below", the book aims at providing a thick description of the embeddedness of bazaar traders' economic behaviors and strategies in local and global political, economic, and cultural contexts, markets and supply chains. Susanne Fehlings is a Lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and a Senior Researcher at the Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her main interests include economic anthropology, the anthropology of the state, urban anthropology and topics related to ethnobotany. Her regional focus is post-Soviet Eurasia and the South Caucasus.
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Series Politics and History in Central Asia.
Available in Other Form TRADERS, INFORMAL TRADE AND MARKETS BETWEEN THE CAUCASUS AND CHINA.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Markets, Trade, And The Study Of The Post-Soviet Economy
Chapter 2: From Chelnoki (Shuttle Traders) To Biznesmeny
Chapter 3: Caucasian Biznes, Local Trade, And Entrepreneurship
Chapter 4: Dealing With Institutional Frameworks
Chapter 5: Chinelebi-Chinese Entrepreneurs In The Caucasus.

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