Preface

1

Foreword

Nathan Light

5

Introduction: Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus: A Translocal Perspective

Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Philipp Schröder

27

Part 1: Crossing Boundaries: Mobilities Then and Now

1.

Emigration Within, Across, and Beyond Central Asia in the Early Soviet Period from a Perspective of Translocality

Kamoludin Abdullaev

61

2.

Crossing Economic and Cultural Boundaries: Tajik Middlemen in the Translocal ‘Dubai Business’ Sector

Abdullah Mirzoev and Manja Stephan-Emmrich

89

Part 2: Travelling Ideas: Sacred and Secular

3.

Sacred Lineages in Central Asia: Translocality and Identity

Azim Malikov

121

4.

Explicating Translocal Organization of Everyday Life: Stories From Rural Uzbekistan

Elena Kim

151

5.

A Sense of Multiple Belonging: Translocal Relations and Narratives of Change Within a Dungan Community

Henryk Alff

177

Part 3: Movements from Below: Economic and Social

6.

‘New History’ as a Translocal Field

Svetlana Jacquesson

205

7.

Informal Trade and Globalization in the Caucasus and Post-Soviet Eurasia

Susanne Fehlings

229

8.

The Economics of Translocality — Epistemographic Observations from Fieldwork on Traders In(-Between) Russia, China, and Kyrgyzstan

Philipp Schröder

263

Part 4: Pious Endeavours: Near and Far

9.

iPhones, Emotions, Mediations: Tracing Translocality in the Pious Endeavours of Tajik Migrants in the United Arab Emirates

Manja Stephan-Emmrich

291

10.

Translocality and the Folding of Post-Soviet Urban Space in Bishkek: Hijrah from ‘Botanika’ to ‘Botanicheskii Jamaat’

Emil Nasritdinov

319

Afterword: On Transitive Concepts and Local Imaginations — Studying Mobilities from a Translocal Perspective

Barak Kalir

349

Notes on Contributors

361

Index

365