Forging Transnational Belonging Through Informal Trade: Thriving Markets in Times of Crisis

ISBN-13: 9780367900731 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 188 str.

Sandra King-Savic

Opis

Analyzing informal trading practices and smuggling through the case study of Novi Pazar, this book explores how societies cope when governments no longer assume the responsibility for providing welfare to their citizens.

Spis treści

Introduction - Šverceri, People Like You and Me  Part I  Chapter 1 - Narrating History through the Prism of Šverc  Part II  Chapter 2 - The ‘Inner Logic’ of Transnational Relations   Chapter 3 - Novi Pazar as a Mnemonic Nucleus for the Transmission of Memory  Part III  Chapter 4 - Recontextualizing Narratives of Šverc Within the Discourse of Economic Collapse  Chapter 5 - Speaking about the Practice of Šverc  Conclusion  Methodological Considerations  Appendix – Questionnaire

O autorze

Sandra King-Savic is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE) at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). She served as a human rights educator for Amnesty International, and conducted research for the Foreign Military Studies Office at the University of Kansas (KU) before receiving a Swiss National Foundation scholarship for her dissertation on the transversal relationship between migration and informal markets.