1st Edition
Informal Markets and Trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus
1. Negotiating state and society: the normative informal economies of Central Asia and the Caucasus
Susanne Fehlings and Hasan H. Karrar
2. Trading in Dordoi and Lilo bazaars: frontiers of formality, entrepreneurship and globalization
Philippe Rudaz
3. The traders of Central Bazaar, Astana: motivation and networks
Meiirzhan Baitas
4. The formal side of informality: non-state trading practices and local Uyghur ethnography
Rune Steenberg
5. Markets at sacred sites: the globalized mobility and informality of the Armenian religious fairs
Yulia Antonyan
6. The bazaar in ruins: rent and fire in Barakholka, Almaty
Hasan H. Karrar
7. Doing business in Yabaolu Market, Beijing: (inter-)ethnic entrepreneurship, trust and friendship between Caucasian and Chinese traders
Susanne Fehlings
8. Business 2.0: Kyrgyz middlemen in Guangzhou
Philipp Schröder
9. Trade ‘outside the law’: Uzbek and Afghan transnational merchants between Yiwu and South-Central Asia
Diana Ibañez-Tirado and Magnus Marsden
Biography
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.
