Susanne Fehling
Biographic Data
| ID | 4163591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne Fehling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Fehling |
| SIGNATURE | FEHLING S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1278-0844 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Small businesses and new adaptation capacities in Georgia and Kazakhstan
Hub or periphery? Changing connectivity and disconnectivity in the South Caucasus
The Transformation of Green Zones in Yerevan, Armenia
The layout of the contemporary Armenian capital Yerevan is based on a 1924 master plan by the Soviet Armenian architect Alexander Tamanyan, who was inspired by the English concept of the 'garden city'. Still, the city has a much longer 'green tradition' that is documented for pre-Soviet times and might reach back to - or at least allude to - the parks and gardens of ancient Mesopotamia. In this article, we give insights into this local green trad…
Informal Markets and Trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Traders, Informal Trade and Markets between the Caucasus and China
Debt Relations in Georgian Bazaars
This article is about practices of borrowing and lending money in the context of Georgian bazaar trade. While many anthropological studies focus on debtors or individual moneylenders, this article starts from the perspective of microcredit experts, who grant loans to traders on behalf of their companies and thereby engage in complex relationships. Borrowing money from a microcredit institution consists of an administrative act, which is sealed by…
Negotiating state and society
This special issue introduces new research on informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus. The research presented here was conducted in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Beijing, Guangzhou, Yiwu and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. The following eight articles illustrate how informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus provided spaces for people across the region to negotiate sta…
Doing business in Yabaolu Market, Beijing
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in China and Georgia, this article traces the origins and describes current practices of post-Soviet tourist trading in Yabaolu Market in Beijing. While traders from across the Caucasus visit Yabaolu, my focus is on Georgian traders who today perceive themselves as biznesmeny. Focusing on a typical trade visit, the article explores the role of ethnic and kinship ties in the organization of this trade. It questions …
The ignoble savage in urban Yerevan
This article focuses on a recent development in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, described by its urban population as a ruralization process. I explore what it means to call something or someone ‘rural’ or ‘urban’, and I compare the social category of ‘rural people’ with the social category of the (old) urban intelligentsia. This includes an analysis and reconsideration of the traditional ‘nature–culture dichotomy’ and its meaning for the architect…
Intimacy and exposure – the Armenian “tun” and Yerevan’s public space
Purpose – In contrast to the dominant accounts in post-Soviet studies that see public and private as two spheres existing in parallel, the purpose of this paper is to argue that in Armenia the public-private dichotomy can be better understood as a spectrum of different kinds of interactions between the state and private actors/social groups representing different sets of socio-cultural values, which are mirrored in Yerevan’s city planning and hou…
Jerewan. Urbanes Chaos und soziale Ordnung
Jerewan ist eine Stadt, die sich auf faszinierende Weise im Bau und Umbau befindet. Mit ihren Gegensätzen aus Ordnung und Unordnung ist sie ein Prisma für viele Entwicklungen und Ereignisse der Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft der Region. Dieses Buch beinhaltet eine detaillierte ethnographische Beschreibung des alltäglichen Lebens, der Wohnstrukturen und Bautätigkeiten in der armenischen Hauptstadt. Dabei werden unter anderem soziale Ordnunge…
Negotiating state and society
This special issue introduces new research on informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus. The research presented here was conducted in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Beijing, Guangzhou, Yiwu and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. The following eight articles illustrate how informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus provided spaces for people across the region to negotiate sta…
Doing business in Yabaolu Market, Beijing
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in China and Georgia, this article traces the origins and describes current practices of post-Soviet tourist trading in Yabaolu Market in Beijing. While traders from across the Caucasus visit Yabaolu, my focus is on Georgian traders who today perceive themselves as biznesmeny. Focusing on a typical trade visit, the article explores the role of ethnic and kinship ties in the organization of this trade. It questions …
Intimacy and exposure – the Armenian “tun” and Yerevan’s public space
Purpose – In contrast to the dominant accounts in post-Soviet studies that see public and private as two spheres existing in parallel, the purpose of this paper is to argue that in Armenia the public-private dichotomy can be better understood as a spectrum of different kinds of interactions between the state and private actors/social groups representing different sets of socio-cultural values, which are mirrored in Yerevan’s city planning and hou…
Traders, Informal Trade and Markets between the Caucasus and China
The ignoble savage in urban Yerevan
This article focuses on a recent development in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, described by its urban population as a ruralization process. I explore what it means to call something or someone ‘rural’ or ‘urban’, and I compare the social category of ‘rural people’ with the social category of the (old) urban intelligentsia. This includes an analysis and reconsideration of the traditional ‘nature–culture dichotomy’ and its meaning for the architect…
Jerewan. Urbanes Chaos und soziale Ordnung
Jerewan ist eine Stadt, die sich auf faszinierende Weise im Bau und Umbau befindet. Mit ihren Gegensätzen aus Ordnung und Unordnung ist sie ein Prisma für viele Entwicklungen und Ereignisse der Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft der Region. Dieses Buch beinhaltet eine detaillierte ethnographische Beschreibung des alltäglichen Lebens, der Wohnstrukturen und Bautätigkeiten in der armenischen Hauptstadt. Dabei werden unter anderem soziale Ordnunge…
Intimacy and exposure – the Armenian “tun” and Yerevan’s public space
Purpose – In contrast to the dominant accounts in post-Soviet studies that see public and private as two spheres existing in parallel, the purpose of this paper is to argue that in Armenia the public-private dichotomy can be better understood as a spectrum of different kinds of interactions between the state and private actors/social groups representing different sets of socio-cultural values, which are mirrored in Yerevan’s city planning and hou…
The ignoble savage in urban Yerevan
This article focuses on a recent development in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, described by its urban population as a ruralization process. I explore what it means to call something or someone ‘rural’ or ‘urban’, and I compare the social category of ‘rural people’ with the social category of the (old) urban intelligentsia. This includes an analysis and reconsideration of the traditional ‘nature–culture dichotomy’ and its meaning for the architect…
Doing business in Yabaolu Market, Beijing
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in China and Georgia, this article traces the origins and describes current practices of post-Soviet tourist trading in Yabaolu Market in Beijing. While traders from across the Caucasus visit Yabaolu, my focus is on Georgian traders who today perceive themselves as biznesmeny. Focusing on a typical trade visit, the article explores the role of ethnic and kinship ties in the organization of this trade. It questions …
Negotiating state and society
This special issue introduces new research on informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus. The research presented here was conducted in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Beijing, Guangzhou, Yiwu and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. The following eight articles illustrate how informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus provided spaces for people across the region to negotiate sta…
Informal Markets and Trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Traders, Informal Trade and Markets between the Caucasus and China
Debt Relations in Georgian Bazaars
This article is about practices of borrowing and lending money in the context of Georgian bazaar trade. While many anthropological studies focus on debtors or individual moneylenders, this article starts from the perspective of microcredit experts, who grant loans to traders on behalf of their companies and thereby engage in complex relationships. Borrowing money from a microcredit institution consists of an administrative act, which is sealed by…
The Transformation of Green Zones in Yerevan, Armenia
The layout of the contemporary Armenian capital Yerevan is based on a 1924 master plan by the Soviet Armenian architect Alexander Tamanyan, who was inspired by the English concept of the 'garden city'. Still, the city has a much longer 'green tradition' that is documented for pre-Soviet times and might reach back to - or at least allude to - the parks and gardens of ancient Mesopotamia. In this article, we give insights into this local green trad…
Small businesses and new adaptation capacities in Georgia and Kazakhstan
Hub or periphery? Changing connectivity and disconnectivity in the South Caucasus
Political science (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · China's Global Influence and Migration (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · China (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · International trade (3 works)