Trading places: Post-socialist container markets and the city

被引：28

作者：

Humphrey, Caroline ^{[1
]}

Skvirskaja, Vera ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Cambridge, Collaborat Anthropol, Cambridge, England

[2] Univ Cambridge, Dept Social Anthropol, Cambridge, England

来源：

FOCAAL-JOURNAL OF GLOBAL AND HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY | 2009年 / 55期

关键词：

city; container markets; fairs; migration; xenophobia;

D O I：

10.3167/fcl.2009.550105

中图分类号：

Q98 [人类学];

学科分类号：

030303 ;

摘要：

This article discusses a vast, new and semi-legal marketplace of shipping containers on the outskirts of Odessa, Ukraine. It is suggested that such markets, which have sprung up at several places in post-socialist space where routes intersect, have certain features in common with mediaeval trade fairs. However, today's markets have their own specificities in relation to state and legal regimes, migration, and the cities to which they are semi-attached. The article analyzes the Seventh Kilometer Market (Sed'moi) near Odessa as a particular socio-mythical space. It affords it own kind of protection and opportunities to traders, but these structures may be unstable in a changing economic climate.

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页码：61 / 73

页数：13