To Be an Entrepreneur
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To Be an Entrepreneur offers a nuanced assessment of disruption in development through careful ethnographic attention. In her ethnography, Huang's attention to these young women works to undo some of this erasure by focusing on their rich and complex lives and words.
» The Journal of Asian Studies
In To Be an Entrepreneur, Julia Qermezi Huang focuses on Bangladesh's iAgent social-enterprise model, the set of economic processes that animate the delivery of this model, and the implications for women's empowerment. Les mer
While describing the historical and incomplete transition of Bangladesh's development models from their roots in a patronage-based moral economy to a market-based social-enterprise arrangement, Huang concludes that market-driven interventions fail to grasp the sociopolitical and cultural contexts in which poverty and gender inequality are embedded and sustained. -- Cornell University Press
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cornell University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 324
- ISBN
- 9781501748271
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
«
To Be an Entrepreneur offers a nuanced assessment of disruption in development through careful ethnographic attention. In her ethnography, Huang's attention to these young women works to undo some of this erasure by focusing on their rich and complex lives and words.
» The Journal of Asian Studies
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To Be an Entrepreneur is an important, though academic, read. Both fascinating and disturbing, it is a cautionary tale on how not to do international development.
» The Marketplace Magazine