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Sewing to satisfaction: craft-based entrepreneurs in contemporary Kyrgyzstan

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  • Aisalkyn Botoeva
  • Regine A. Spector

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This article focuses on the reassembling of apparel production in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. We contribute to this special issue on well-being in Central Asia by examining how individual craft-based apparel producers (a subset of producers in the apparel industry) describe the process through which they built upon their Soviet past and reoriented their professional trajectories in a new competitive market environment. These producers locate professional satisfaction in their ability to draw upon and creatively re-employ local knowledge and experience learned in Soviet institutions, ultimately – as they articulate and perceive – deriving pride and well-being from the process of selling highly regarded ethnically inspired apparel products both at home and abroad.

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  • Aisalkyn Botoeva & Regine A. Spector, 2013. "Sewing to satisfaction: craft-based entrepreneurs in contemporary Kyrgyzstan," Central Asian Survey, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(4), pages 487-500, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ccasxx:v:32:y:2013:i:4:p:487-500
    DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2013.862963
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    1. Castañeda Dower, Paul & Gerber, Theodore P. & Weber, Shlomo, 2022. "Firms, kinship networks, and economic growth in the Kyrgyz Republic," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 50(4), pages 997-1018.

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