Translating transactions: Markets as epistemic and moral spheres
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Abstract In this Modern Asian Studies book symposium, scholars of South Asia analyse the political, ethical, and epistemic aspects market life. They build on 2020 Cambridge volume, Rethinking Markets in India: Embedded Exchange Contested Jurisdiction , edited by Ajay Gandhi, Barbara Harriss-White, Douglas Haynes, Sebastian Schwecke. This interdisciplinary conversation approaches transactional realms from disciplines history, anthropology, development studies, political economy. The symposium’s contributors examine a range pertinent issues that encompass customary forms exchange capitalist trade. Among topics discussed are those fetishism, bazaar knowledge, social embeddedness, representation translation, institutional regulatory contexts for commerce.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Modern Asian Studies
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1469-8099', '0026-749X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x23000112