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Throughout the post-Soviet region, conflicts over property feature prominently in local headlines and public debates. This article explores ownership conflicts in contemporary Kyrgyzstan by asking why some marketplaces (bazaars) have remained stable and relatively secure in an environment characterized by weak rule of law and ongoing asset redistribution. Using data from field research conducted in 2006-2007, including interviews, newspaper articles, and government documents, the article identifies historical and political mechanisms that allow bazaar owners to secure their assets in this environment.

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 perceivederiving pride and well-being from the process of selling highly regarded ethnically inspired apparel products both at home and abroad.

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