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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-Tirado
The 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

History

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  • Published

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Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Page range

225-250

Pages

272.0

Book title

Challenging Cosmopolitanism: Coercion, Mobility and Displacement in Islamic Asia

Place of publication

Edinburgh

ISBN

9781474435093

Department affiliated with

  • Anthropology Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Asia Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-11-03

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-11-30

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-11-03

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