Forging transnational belonging through informal trade : thriving markets in times of crisis /

King-Savic, Sandra,

Forging transnational belonging through informal trade : thriving markets in times of crisis / Sandra King-Savic. - 1 online resource. - Southeast European studies .

Narrating history through the prism of šverc -- The 'inner logic' of transnational relations -- Belonging through the prism of šverc : making sense of the Yugoslav Succession Wars -- Novi Pazar as a mnemonic nucleus for the transmission of memory -- Recontextualizing narratives of šverc within the discourse of economic collapse -- Speaking about the practice of šverc.

"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. How do economic transnational practices shape one's sense of belonging in times of crisis/precarity? Specifically, how does the collapse of the Ottoman Empire - and the subsequent migration of the Muslim Slav population to Turkey - relate to the Yugoslav Succession Wars during the 1990s? Using the case-study of Novi Pazar, a town on the Montenegro- Kosovo border which became a smuggling hub during the Yugoslav conflict, the book focuses on that informal market economy as a prism through which to analyze the strengthening of existing relations between the émigré community in Turkey and the local Bosniak population in the Sandžak region"--

9781003022381 1003022383 9781000381160 1000381161 9781000381146 1000381145

10.4324/9781003022381 doi


Smuggling--Social aspects--Serbia--Novi Pazar.
Informal sector (Economics)--Serbia--Novi Pazar.
Transnationalism--Economic aspects--Serbia--Novi Pazar.
Muslims--Social conditions.--Serbia--Novi Pazar
Belonging (Social psychology)--Serbia--Novi Pazar.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General


Novi Pazar (Serbia)--Economic conditions.
Novi Pazar (Serbia)--Social conditions.
Serbia--Foreign economic relations--Turkey.
Turkey--Foreign economic relations--Serbia.

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