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 commodity chains.

Book Information
ISBN 9789811952043
Author Susanne Fehlings
Format Hardback
Page Count 263
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Springer Verlag, Singapore
Weight(grams) 155g