Chapter 9 Afghanistan’s Cosmopolitan Trading Networks

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 cosm...

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description 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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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-319122025-05-08T09:41:44Z Chapter 9 Afghanistan’s Cosmopolitan Trading Networks Marsden, Magnus Ibañez-Tirado, Diana cosmopolitanism traders Yiwu Afghanistan trading networks mobility 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-06-18 09:01:07 2020-04-01T10:19:17Z 2018 chapter 1005056 OCN: 1135845511 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25041 9781474435123 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31912 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25041/1/Marsden_Ibanez-Tirado_chapter.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25041/1/Marsden_Ibanez-Tirado_chapter.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25041/1/Marsden_Ibanez-Tirado_chapter.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25041/1/Marsden_Ibanez-Tirado_chapter.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25041/1/Marsden_Ibanez-Tirado_chapter.pdf Edinburgh University Press 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435093.001.0001 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435093.001.0001 208d7ab7-a2e4-4c7f-83b1-53dfb4ba4a35 Challenging Cosmopolitanism H2020 European Research Council 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9781474435123 European Research Council (ERC) EU collection 26 Edinburgh, UK 669132 open access
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Chapter 9 Afghanistan’s Cosmopolitan Trading Networks
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