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Call for Papers: American Anthropological Association Meetings Vancouver,
BC November 20-24 2019
Organizers: Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, Sally Babidge, Marcelo Gonzalez
Discussant: Carla Freeman
During the last three decades, micro-entrepreneurship has become a major
target of governmental and corporate action worldwide. The expansion of
programs aimed at supporting potential and early career entrepreneurs, have
affected an increasingly large sectors of society across different class
and ethnic backgrounds. Inspired by the principles of micro-finance,
entrepreneurial governance has emerged discursively as a panacea for
economic precariousness among marginalized sectors of society, bearing
promises of more inclusive access to entrepreneurial formation and feeding
hope of social mobility. At the same time, under the banner of innovation,
entrepreneurial governance has also created new inequalities by reifying
class differences. Many of the ideals behind the emergence of new
entrepreneurs reflect neoliberal principles, in particular,
self-accountability, and a celebration of economic freedom, regardless of
ongoing dependence on governmental support to small scale entrepreneurs.
Although micro-entrepreneurial governance often fails to engender the
promised transformation of citizens into fully independent entrepreneurs,
it remains a powerful technology. By eliciting imaginaries of
self-realization based on the constant renewal of aspiration,
micro-entrepreneurial governance serves as the context in which potential
and actual entrepreneurs redirect their life trajectories through the
articulation of new claims of class and ethnic difference. We seek
contributions that engage with practices, experiences and discourses of
micro-entrepreneurship. These may focus on the effects of state,
non-governmental or corporate interventions in entrepreneurial formation of
individual subjects or communities, as well as critical responses among
potential and actual entrepreneurs.
Please send an abstract (maximum 250 words) to Piergiorgio Di Giminiani (
[log in to unmask]), CCing Sally Babidge ([log in to unmask] ) and Marcelo
Gonzalez ([log in to unmask] ) by Thursday March the 24th. For preliminary
queries, feel free to get in touch!
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