What do they think they're doing?All the contributions to this book engage with this particular question. Following the intricate analyses of what bureaucrats do, 2 we now wish to consider what they think they're doing. While their answers might be inter-1 The research underlying this article was made possible by a generous fellowship at the Kulturwissenschaftliche Kolleg Konstanz. I would like to thank all those participating in the discussions of the bureaucracy group at the KuKo for the insights and inspiration I gained from our conversations, namely Arthur Benz, Pascale Cancik, Mirko Göpfert, Thomas Groß, Hans Christian Röhl, Christian Rosser and Marcus Twellmann. I would also like to thank Werner Schiffauer for many inspiring discussions about states and their knowledge practices. I am grateful to

How has »ethnic entrepreneurship« emerged and developed since the late eighties in Berlin? In his study, Baris Ülker answers this question by relying on the experiences of immigrants from Turkey. Most academic studies on »ethnic entrepreneurship« have focused either on the »most unitary« structure available in the »natural flow of history« or on the pre-given »cultural« characteristics of immigrants. This book instead sets historical ruptures, conditions of possibility and individual practices in context. It analyzes how human beings have been turned into »ethnic entrepreneurs« and explains the ways of governing the self and others in the neoliberal urban context.

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