Projekt

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The projects intends to build new understanding on the role of local markets and the informal circulation of traders and goods across the Caucasus and Central Asia; field research in neighboring northern Pakistan, and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in western China shall provide a comparative perspective from within the region. The emphasis is on commercial activities and exchanges managed by individual entrepreneurs, that is, exchange taking place outside of state regulation, or what Saskia Sassen (2001) describes as "informal economic activity". Seven sub-projects frame their individual projects as "globalization from below" that is distinguished from "globalization from above" and converge in their focus around three themes: understanding how statehood is negotiated through informal practices, a comprehensive study of markets both as sites of exchange and as practice, and the new value dynamics that are generated through this process.

• PD Dr. Susanne Fehlings

  Frobenius-Institut an der
  Universität Frankfurt am Main
  Frankfurt am Main
  

• Dr. Hasan Karrar

  Lahore University of Management Sciences
  School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
  Lahore
  Pakistan
  

• Prof. Dr. Yulia Antonyan

  Yerevan State University
  Department of Cultural Studies
  Yerevan
  Armenien
  

• Prof. Dr. Ketevan Khutsishvili

  I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi
  State University
  Faculty of Humanities
  Institute of Ethnology
  8th Building
  Tbilisi
  Georgien
  

• Dr. Hamlet Melkumyan

  National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
  Department of Contemporary Anthropological Studies
  Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography
  Yerevan
  Armenien
  

• Dr. Philippe Rudaz

  Universität Fribourg
  Academic Swiss Caucasus Network
  Fribourg
  Schweiz