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Informal Markets and Trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus (Hardcover)
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Informal Markets and Trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus (Hardcover)
Series: Central Asian Studies
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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.
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