FOLLOWING THE NEW SILK ROAD BETWEEN YIWU AND CAIRO

Olivier Pliez (1)

1 LISST - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Solidarités, Sociétés, Territoires

What link can be established between Tripoli, capital of the former rogue state of Libya, the small Egyptian border town of Salloum, inhabited by Bedouins, the Egyptian metropolis of Cairo, and Yiwu, a market city three hours’ drive from Shanghai? At first glance, the question may seem like a guessing game, but in fact it leads geographers, anthropologists, and other social scientists to face the increasing difficulty of working out the unexpected and often invisible connections between locations along the routes of “globalization from below.”

Mots clés: globalization from below

Domaines: Géographie

Olivier Pliez. FOLLOWING THE NEW SILK ROAD BETWEEN YIWU AND CAIRO: A proposed method for understanding the inconspicuous sites of grassroots globalization. Mathews, G., Ribeiro, G. L., & Vega, C. A. (Eds.). (2012). Globalization from below: the world's other economy, Routledge, p. 19-35, 2012, 978-0415535090. ⟨10.4324/9780203106006⟩. ⟨hal-01441674⟩