Outputs (69)

‘They're Going to Have to Start Becoming’: What Inclusive Capitalism Tells Us About the Changing Face of Development (2025)
Journal Article
Dolan, C., & Rajak, D. (in press). ‘They're Going to Have to Start Becoming’: What Inclusive Capitalism Tells Us About the Changing Face of Development. Anthropologie et développement,

In recent years, business has reimagined corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a proactive market strategy, aligning itself with contemporary development orthodoxies of pro-poor and inclusive growth by enrolling the un- and under-employed into new... Read More about ‘They're Going to Have to Start Becoming’: What Inclusive Capitalism Tells Us About the Changing Face of Development.

Readiness, Resilience and the Ripple Effect: Women-owned enterprise in Kenya and the Promise of Global Inclusion (2024)
Journal Article
Rajak, D., & Dolan, C. (2024). Readiness, Resilience and the Ripple Effect: Women-owned enterprise in Kenya and the Promise of Global Inclusion. Critical African Studies, 16(1), 51-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2024.2332199

This article interrogates the promise of inclusive markets as the vehicle of gender empowerment empirically through a case study of a small women-owned enterprise in Nairobi on its journey to inclusion in one of the world’s largest corporate supply c... Read More about Readiness, Resilience and the Ripple Effect: Women-owned enterprise in Kenya and the Promise of Global Inclusion.

Aspiring Minds: ‘A Generation of Entrepreneurs in the Making’ (2021)
Journal Article
Rajak, D., & Dolan, C. (2022). Aspiring Minds: ‘A Generation of Entrepreneurs in the Making’. Sociological Research Online, 27(4), 803-822. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804211042905

This article examines how corporate, state and donor interests have converged in attempts to craft South Africa’s youngsters into an army of entrepreneurs as the last frontier for creating growth in a post-job world. We investigate the apparatus desi... Read More about Aspiring Minds: ‘A Generation of Entrepreneurs in the Making’.

Remote (dis)engagement: Shifting Corporate Risk to the 'Bottom of the Pyramid' (2021)
Journal Article
Roll, K., Dolan, C., & Rajak, D. (2021). Remote (dis)engagement: Shifting Corporate Risk to the 'Bottom of the Pyramid'. Development and Change, 52(4), 878-901. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12669

Untapped markets are often deemed institutional voids, terra incognita ripe with economic possibility. The conversion of institutional voids into viable markets has become the ambition of many corporations today, who view marginal and underserved are... Read More about Remote (dis)engagement: Shifting Corporate Risk to the 'Bottom of the Pyramid'.

Tracing the roots and routes of FGM discourses: A nodal ethnography of the anti-FGM domain (2021)
Thesis
Van Bavel, H. Tracing the roots and routes of FGM discourses: A nodal ethnography of the anti-FGM domain. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis traces the historical origins of arguments and advocacy against what many activists now call ‘female genital mutilation/cutting’ (FGM/C). It provides an ethnographic analysis of the means by which these arguments against ‘FGM/C’ were spre... Read More about Tracing the roots and routes of FGM discourses: A nodal ethnography of the anti-FGM domain.

Mutuality Talk in a Family-Owned Multinational: Anthropological Categories and Critical Analyses of Corporate Ethicizing (2020)
Journal Article
Gilbert, P., & Dolan, C. (2020). Mutuality Talk in a Family-Owned Multinational: Anthropological Categories and Critical Analyses of Corporate Ethicizing. Journal of business anthropology, 9(1), 19-43. https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v9i1.5958

This article draws on work carried out as part of a collaboration between an elite business school and a family-owned multinational corporation, concerned with promoting ‘mutuality in business’ as a new frontier of responsible capitalism. While the b... Read More about Mutuality Talk in a Family-Owned Multinational: Anthropological Categories and Critical Analyses of Corporate Ethicizing.

Worker, Businessman, Entrepreneur?: Kenya’s Shifting Labouring Subject (2019)
Journal Article
Dolan, C., & Gordon, C. (2019). Worker, Businessman, Entrepreneur?: Kenya’s Shifting Labouring Subject. Critical African Studies, 11(3), 301-321. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2019.1689829

Entrepreneurship is increasingly promoted as a salve for the political problem of jobless growth and shrinking state coffers. But, its contemporary position at the frontiers of African capitalism is premised on nearly a century of attention on the Af... Read More about Worker, Businessman, Entrepreneur?: Kenya’s Shifting Labouring Subject.

The ambiguity of mutuality: discourse and power in corporate value regimes (2019)
Journal Article
Dolan, C., Huang, J., & Gordon, C. (2021). The ambiguity of mutuality: discourse and power in corporate value regimes. Dialectical Anthropology, 45, 9-27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-019-09569-y

Corporate values offer a means for consecrating alternative regimes of worth within businesses, explicitly orienting firms around more than the pursuit of profits. This paper examines how corporate values come to be constructed and diffused as a fram... Read More about The ambiguity of mutuality: discourse and power in corporate value regimes.

Logics of Affordability and Worth: Gendered Consumption in Rural Uganda (2019)
Journal Article
Dolan, C., Gordon, C., Steinfield, L., & Hennegan, J. (2020). Logics of Affordability and Worth: Gendered Consumption in Rural Uganda. Economic Anthropology, 7(1), 93-107. https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12157

This article explores logics of affordability and worth within rural Ugandan households. Through an analysis of how worth is ascribed to certain goods, from the morally ambiguous personal consumption of alcohol and beauty products to the “responsible... Read More about Logics of Affordability and Worth: Gendered Consumption in Rural Uganda.

Speculative Futures at the Bottom of the Pyramid (2018)
Journal Article
Dolan, C., & Rajak, D. (2018). Speculative Futures at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 24(2), 233-255. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12808

Celebrated as creative, flexible catalysts of inclusive capitalism, urban youth are central to bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (BoP) models of development, which set out to repurpose the jobless as entrepreneurs in the making. We explore the multiple (at times... Read More about Speculative Futures at the Bottom of the Pyramid.