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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.

Governance by campaign: the co-constitution of food issues, publics and expertise through new information and communication technologies (2017)
Journal Article
Schneider, T., Eli, K., McLennan, A., Dolan, C., Lezaun, J., & Ulijaszek, S. (2017). Governance by campaign: the co-constitution of food issues, publics and expertise through new information and communication technologies. Information, Communication and Society, 22(2), 172 -192. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1363264

This paper considers food as a site of public engagement with science and technology. Specifically, we focus on how public engagement with food is envisioned and operationalised by one non-profit organisation, foodwatch. Founded in Germany in 2002, f... Read More about Governance by campaign: the co-constitution of food issues, publics and expertise through new information and communication technologies.

A qualitative understanding of the effects of reusable sanitary pads and puberty education: Implications for future research and practice (2017)
Journal Article
Hennegan, J., Dolan, C., Steinfield, L., & Montgomery, P. (2017). A qualitative understanding of the effects of reusable sanitary pads and puberty education: Implications for future research and practice. Reproductive Health, 14(78), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-017-0339-9

BACKGROUND: The management of menstruation has come to the fore as a barrier to girls’ education attainment in
low income contexts. Interventions have been proposed and piloted, but the emerging nature of the field means
limited evidence is availab... Read More about A qualitative understanding of the effects of reusable sanitary pads and puberty education: Implications for future research and practice.

Menstruation and the cycle of poverty: a cluster quasi-randomised control trial of sanitary pad and puberty education provision in Uganda (2016)
Journal Article
Montgomery, P., Hennegan, J., Dolan, C., Wu, M., Steinfield, L., & Scott, L. (2016). Menstruation and the cycle of poverty: a cluster quasi-randomised control trial of sanitary pad and puberty education provision in Uganda. PLoS ONE, 11(12), Article e0166122. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166122

BACKGROUND:
Poor menstrual knowledge and access to sanitary products have been proposed as barriers to menstrual health and school attendance. In response, interventions targeting these needs have seen increasing implementation in public and private... Read More about Menstruation and the cycle of poverty: a cluster quasi-randomised control trial of sanitary pad and puberty education provision in Uganda.

Schoolgirls’ experience and appraisal of menstrual absorbents in rural Uganda: a cross-sectional evaluation of reusable sanitary pads (2016)
Journal Article
Hennegan, J., Dolan, C., Wu, M., Scott, L., & Montgomery, P. (2016). Schoolgirls’ experience and appraisal of menstrual absorbents in rural Uganda: a cross-sectional evaluation of reusable sanitary pads. Reproductive Health, 13(143), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-016-0260-7

BACKGROUND:
Governments, multinational organisations, and charities have commenced the distribution of sanitary products to address current deficits in girls’ menstrual management. The few effectiveness studies conducted have focused on health and... Read More about Schoolgirls’ experience and appraisal of menstrual absorbents in rural Uganda: a cross-sectional evaluation of reusable sanitary pads.

Mobile Activism, Material Imaginings, and the Ethics of the Edible: Framing Political Engagement through the Buycott App (2016)
Journal Article
Eli, K., Dolan, C., Schneider, T., & Ulijaszek, S. (2016). Mobile Activism, Material Imaginings, and the Ethics of the Edible: Framing Political Engagement through the Buycott App. Geoforum, 74, 63-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.04.002

In this article, we explore the discursive constructions of Buycott, a free mobile app that provides a platform for user-generated ethical consumption campaigns. Unlike other ethical consumption apps, Buycott’s mode of knowledge production positions... Read More about Mobile Activism, Material Imaginings, and the Ethics of the Edible: Framing Political Engagement through the Buycott App.

The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility (2016)
Book
Dolan, C., & Rajak, D. (Eds.). (2016). The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility. Berghahn. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvgs09h2

The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile... Read More about The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility.

Remaking Africa's Informal Economies: Youth, Entrepreneurship and the Promise of Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid (2016)
Journal Article
Dolan, C., & Rajak, D. (2016). Remaking Africa's Informal Economies: Youth, Entrepreneurship and the Promise of Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid. The Journal of Development Studies, 52(4), 514-529. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2015.1126249

In recent years, the quest for ‘inclusive markets’ that incorporate Africa’s youth has become a key focus of national and international development efforts, with so-called bottom of the pyramid (BoP) initiatives increasingly seen as a way to draw the... Read More about Remaking Africa's Informal Economies: Youth, Entrepreneurship and the Promise of Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid.

Business as a development agent: Evidence of possibility and improbability (2014)
Journal Article
Blowfield, M., & Dolan, C. (2014). Business as a development agent: Evidence of possibility and improbability. Third World Quarterly, 35(1), 22-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2013.868982

An emphasis on making markets work for the poor has thrust companies into the role of ‘development agents’ – organisations that consciously seek to deliver outcomes that contribute to international development goals. This paper examines what business... Read More about Business as a development agent: Evidence of possibility and improbability.