1st Edition
Translocality, Entrepreneurship and Middle Class Across Eurasia Kyrgyzstan’s ‘First Capitalists’ Since the Late Soviet Era
Introduction Part I: The Kyrgyz Pioneers: Novosibirsk’s Bazaar Economy and Diaspora Chapter 1: ‘Accidental Trading’, Informalities and Hardships at the Bazaar; Chapter 2: Business-Making, Labour Organization and Gender at the barakholka Market; Chapter 3: A ‘Bazaar Service Industry’ and Kyrgyz Diaspora Institutions in Novosibirsk Part II: Business 2.0: Kyrgyz Middlemen in Guangzhou Chapter 4: China-Careers and Soft Market Entries; Chapter 5: The Kyrgyz Middleman Game: A New Service Orientation; Chapter 6: ‘Currently Guangzhou’, but with an Exit-Strategy Part III: Kyrgyzstan’s ‘New Entrepreneurs’ in a Changing Economic Landscape Chapter 7: Kyrgyzstan’s ‘Self-Sewing’-Entrepreneurs; Chapter 8: Manufacturing, Agriculture and the Eurasian Economic Union in Kyrgyzstan; Chapter 9: Middle Class Consumption, New Urban Services and ‘Kyrgyzness’; Conclusion: Translocality, Capitalism and a Kyrgyz Entrepreneurial Middle Class; Index
Biography
Philipp Schröder is Associate Professor of Anthropology, School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Qazaqstan and Adjunct Professor, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is also Research Affiliate at ISDC – International Security and Development Center in Berlin, Germany.
