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Afghanistan’s cosmopolitan trading networks: a view from Yiwu, China
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posted on 2023-06-09, 08:37 authored by Magnus MarsdenMagnus Marsden, Diana Ibanez-TiradoDiana Ibanez-TiradoThe focus of this chapter is the city of Yiwu and the nature of Afghan networks present there. By inserting such networks both in the context of the wider global settings, and in terms of the traders’ experience of space in Yiwu, we seek to contribute to an emerging body of literature on Muslim cosmopolitanism in two ways. First, we bring attention to the ways in which the expressions of Muslim cosmopolitanism visible in Yiwu are premised on violent histories of international conflict and interference that have led to massive displacements of the country’s people, as well the bleaching out of the country’s own religious diversity. Secondly, we recognise that if the traders with whom we work are cosmopolitan in some aspects of their lives, then in others they reinforce and sustain collective commitment to national, regional, ideological and confessional identities, identities that are also of critical significance to their activities as traders.
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Trust, Global Traders and Cheap Commodities in a Chinese International City (TRODITIES); G1723; EUROPEAN UNION; 669132
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Edinburgh University PressPage range
225-250Pages
272.0Book title
Challenging Cosmopolitanism: Coercion, Mobility and Displacement in Islamic AsiaPlace of publication
EdinburghISBN
9781474435093Department affiliated with
- Anthropology Publications
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- Sussex Asia Publications
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2017-11-03First Open Access (FOA) Date
2018-11-30First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2017-11-03Usage metrics
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