1st Edition

Forging Transnational Belonging through Informal Trade Thriving Markets in Times of Crisis

By Sandra King-Savic Copyright 2021
198 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Analyzing informal trading practices and smuggling through the case study of Novi Pazar, this book explores how societies cope when governments no longer assume the responsibility for providing welfare to their citizens. How do economic transnational practices shape one’s sense of belonging in times of crisis/precarity? Specifically, how does the collapse of the Ottoman Empire – and the... Read more

Introduction - Šverceri, People Like You and Me

Part I

Chapter 1 - Narrating History through the Prism of Šverc

Part II

Chapter 2 - The ‘Inner Logic’ of Transnational Relations

Chapter 3 - Novi Pazar as a Mnemonic Nucleus for the Transmission of Memory

Part III

Chapter 4 - Recontextualizing Narratives of Šverc Within the Discourse of Economic Collapse

Chapter 5 - Speaking about the Practice of Šverc

Conclusion

Methodological Considerations

Appendix – Questionnaire

Biography

Sandra King-Savic is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE) at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). She served as a human rights educator for Amnesty International, and conducted research for the Foreign Military Studies Office at the University of Kansas (KU) before receiving a Swiss National Foundation scholarship for her dissertation on the transversal relationship between migration and informal markets.