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Accepted Paper:
Debt based trade and debt relations in Uzbekistan, Russia, and Kazakhstan
Zarina Adambussinova
(American University of Central Asia in Bishkek)
Rano Turaeva
(Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich)
Paper short abstract:
The presentation is based on the paper I co-authored with Turaeva Rano. The paper details people’s concrete experiences of debt in post-Soviet economies drawing on substantial ethnographic materials from Uzbekistan, Russia, and Kazakhstan.
Paper long abstract:
The paper details ordinary people’s concrete experiences of debt, solidary social relations, and various forms of economic exchange based on debt relationships in post-Soviet economies drawing on substantial ethnographic materials presented in three case studies from Uzbekistan, Russia, and Kazakhstan. In particular, the paper is organized around three case studies followed by an extensive review of the scholarly works related to informal economies and economical survival mechanisms in post-Soviet space, debt in anthropology, and the relationship between debt and (dis)trust.