… unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed it was Icarus drowning. William Carlos Williams (1962) Why 'critical perspectives' on entrepreneurship research?In the face of the extraordinary events of the late 2000s 'global financial crisis', it may have been expected that some drastic rethink of the unquestioning idealization of the entrepreneur as prototype 'homo economicus', all aspirational and risk-taking would flood the world's media and preoccupy social commentators. One might have expected social, political and business media to pursue empirical research and theoretical analyses seeking out new forms of financial and organizational life to militate against the obscenely unequal, grossly exploitative and boom-crash ethos of market economics. It could equally have been imagined that newly awakened 'captains of industry' would

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to use the attribute "critical" as a sensitizing concept to emphasize entrepreneurship's role in overcoming extant relations of exploitation, domination and oppression. It builds on the premise that entrepreneurship not only brings about new firms, products and services but also new openings for more liberating forms of individual and collective existence. Design/methodology/approach -Honing in on Calas et al.'s (2009) seminal piece on critical entrepreneurship studies, and building on Laclau's (1996) conceptualization of emancipation as intimately related to oppression, the paper explores different interpretations of emancipation and discuss these from a critical understanding of entrepreneurship. The paper then employs these interpretations to introduce and "classify" the five articles in this special issue. Findings -The editorial charts four interpretations of emancipation along two axes (utopiandystopian and heterotopian-paratopian), and relates these to various strands of critical entrepreneurship research. United by a general commitment to positive change, each interpretation champions a different take on what might comprise the emancipatory or oppressive potential of entrepreneurship. Originality/value -As the emancipatory aspect of entrepreneurship has attracted increasing attention among entrepreneurship researchers, the paper formulates a tentative framework for furthering views on the emancipatory aspects of entrepreneurship as a positive phenomenon in critical research -which to date has tended to be preoccupied with the "dark side" of entrepreneurship.

In this paper we use insights from postcolonial feminism to explore the identity narratives of three Muslim businesswomen of Turkish descent in the Netherlands. We identify some of the ways in which contemporary political discourse in the Netherlands constructs Muslim 'Others' and discuss how this discursive positioning impacts on the multiple identities these women create for themselves in response. Postcolonial feminism challenges the discursive and material relations of both patriarchy and Eurocentric feminisms, which work together to obscure the rich diversity of women's lived experiences, their agency and identities. By exploring how Othering impacts on these women's multiple identities, we aim to enrich understandings of women's migrant entrepreneurship. These identity narratives, shared by women who each describe quite different ways of experiencing, interpreting and responding to marginalization, shed light on the West's relationship to the Other and reveal some of the underlying relations of power that shape identity.

Rural and remote communities often have complex and diverse mental health needs and inadequate mental health services and infrastructure. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide an array of potentially innovative and cost-effective means for connecting rural and remote communities to specialist mental health practitioners, services, and supports, irrespective of physical location. However, despite this potential, a review of Australian and international literature reveals that ICT has not attained widespread uptake into social work practice or implementation in rural communities. This article reviews the social work literature on ICT, draws on research on tele-psychology and tele-education, and provides suggestions on how to enhance engagement with ICT by social workers to implement and provide mental health services and supports tailored to community values, needs, and preferences that are commensurate with the values of the social work profession.

This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link ABSTRACTIn this paper we discuss some of our findings from two research projects that explore opportunities for Indigenous enterprise development in remote locations in Northern and CentralAustralia. Based on a series of focus groups and in-depth interviews with Indigenous community leaders, traditional owners, government officials, Land Council officials and other stakeholders, we discuss barriers to economic development faced by Indigenous communities in remote regions. We argue that many of these barriers are the material effects of discursive practices of 'whiteness' in the political economy. We discuss the relationships between institutions and Indigenous communities that constitute the Indigenous political economy and argue that these relationships are informed by discursive practices of whiteness and colonialcapitalist relations of power. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for management learning and public policy.Keywords: Whiteness, Indigenous Management, Indigenous Political Economy, Development, Governance. 3 Grass Burning Under our Feet: Indigenous Enterprise Development in a Political Economy of WhitenessFrom the outset we acknowledge that we are not Indigenous Australians. As a 'brown' man and a 'white' woman we acknowledge to ourselves and to each other how differentially we are situated in and positioned by the dominant white society. Skin contains, confines and mediates our subjectivities in the accumulation of lived experience played out through interactions with others. Our skin is also the means by which some are raced and others not within the political economy of the state. Our shared journey of research reveals the differential impact of 'whiteness' in our worlds and in the worlds of those we work with. In every interview and at every turn, sometimes in looks or whispers, sometimes overtly in the different ways in which we responded to situations or were responded to, our study reveals the subtly nuanced dance of 'in' and 'ex'clusivities produced by 'whiteness'. Whiteness, as we shall discuss later, goes beyond skin color and while the reality of daily racism is tempered in our paper by the emphasis we place on deconstructing the hegemonic effects of whiteness, our analysis (and privilege) remains that of non-Indigenous academics. We cannot and do not speak for the Indigenous communities with whom we work in partnership, nor do we presume to share their lived experience. Nor do we claim any rights to protect, defend or champion them, as it is their agency and capacity that shapes the projects that form our research engagement. We do however seek to 'read against the grain' of the dominant culture in order to contest the unquestioned universal sovereignty of Western epistemological, economic, political and cultural representations which continue to negate and silence Indigenous communities. We acknowledge there can be no in...