The mobilization of noncooperative spaces: reflections from Rohingya refugee camps
The mobilization of noncooperative spaces: reflections from Rohingya refugee camps
In this essay, I challenge key assumptions in the mainstream entrepreneurship literature that individuals have the capability to change their fate through entrepreneurial activities wherever in the world they may be. I advance the concept of a coordinated and regulative cooperative market to argue that the rebalancing of power between marginalized actors such as refugees and ordinary locals, and powerful agents of what I term the ‘uncooperative sociostructure’ is essential in order to improve the wellbeing of refugees. Without a cooperative sociostructural intervention, capitalistic market mechanisms such as bottom of the pyramid (BoP) and microfinance as means to individual freedom simply imprison refugees further.
development, discrimination, displacement, domination, empowerment, entrepreneurship, ethnography, inequality, poverty, refugee
Chowdhury, Rashedur
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Chowdhury, Rashedur
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Chowdhury, Rashedur
(2020)
The mobilization of noncooperative spaces: reflections from Rohingya refugee camps.
Journal of Management Studies.
(doi:10.1111/joms.12612).
Abstract
In this essay, I challenge key assumptions in the mainstream entrepreneurship literature that individuals have the capability to change their fate through entrepreneurial activities wherever in the world they may be. I advance the concept of a coordinated and regulative cooperative market to argue that the rebalancing of power between marginalized actors such as refugees and ordinary locals, and powerful agents of what I term the ‘uncooperative sociostructure’ is essential in order to improve the wellbeing of refugees. Without a cooperative sociostructural intervention, capitalistic market mechanisms such as bottom of the pyramid (BoP) and microfinance as means to individual freedom simply imprison refugees further.
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The Mobilization of Noncooperative Spaces - Rashedur
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Accepted/In Press date: 7 July 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 1 August 2020
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development, discrimination, displacement, domination, empowerment, entrepreneurship, ethnography, inequality, poverty, refugee
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