Neoliberal co-optation and authoritarian renewal: social entrepreneurship networks in Jordan and Morocco

Kreitmeyr, Nadine

doi:10.1080/14747731.2018.1502492

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“…The establishment of social entrepreneurship networks, composed of social entrepreneurs, business and political elites, and international actors, fosters processes of authoritarian renewal through neoliberal forms of co-optation, or under the format of crony capitalism. This form can be often found in the Middle East and good examples would be what Nadine Kreitmeyr (2019) finds in Jordan and Morocco and Roberto Roccu (2012) in Egypt. As a political system deployed by state actors and non-state actors, authoritarianism exists in correlation with individuals adopting authoritarian attitudes.…”

Section: Soft Authoritarianismmentioning

confidence: 77%

Global sociology revisited: Toward new directions

Ḥanafī

2019

Current Sociology

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As newly elected President of the International Sociological Association, I unfold my vision for new directions for global sociology. After defining what a global sociology is, I will point out two particular directions for this sociology: supplementing the postcolonial approach with an anti-authoritarian one, and theorizing post-secular society. One cannot but acknowledge the scars of the colonial era, but postcolonial studies have been rightly used but also abused. I would identify two abuses: the over-emphasis on external factors while neglecting local ones, and the binary logic of antagonistic categories such as East/West, universalism/contextualism. Thus, I make the call to supplement the postcolonial approach with an anti-authoritarian one. There are three levels of authoritarianism: one relates to the political regime; another relates rather to neoliberalism; and the third concerns attitudes. The authoritarian attitude is closely related to the difficulty of dealing with religion in our society. Global sociology should take into account in any contemporary analysis of society the new features of our post-secular society, a sort of low-key secularism in confluence with neoliberalism. In light of these two directions, I would like to see global sociology moving forward. But what should the features of this global sociology be? The article will discuss five features for global sociology.

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Section: Soft Authoritarianismmentioning

confidence: 77%

Global sociology revisited: Toward new directions

Ḥanafī

2019

Current Sociology

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“…How does the state co-opt its social scientists so that they will contribute to the official narratives of civil society as outlined in the FYPs? The literature on state co-optation in authoritarian regimes suggests two important approaches: resources and elite networks (Bertocchi & Spagat, 2001;Gandhi & Przeworski, 2021;Kreitmeyr, 2019).…”

Section: State Narratives: China's Five-year Plansmentioning

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“…Wong (2012) found that Beijing selectively chooses Hong Kong firms that are owned by prestigious elite families to co-opt because these firms yield the greatest demonstration effect. A recent advance along this research line combines co-optation theories with network analysis methods to study how social entrepreneurs, business and political elites, and international actors interact in Jordan and Morocco (Kreitmeyr-Koska, 2016;Kreitmeyr, 2019). The author found that the state actors and social and business elites are embedded in dense social entrepreneurship networks and that the elites' positions in the networks are closely connected to the degree of co-optation.…”

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How Does an Authoritarian State Co-opt Its Social Scientists Studying Civil Society?

2022

Voluntas

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What channels can an authoritarian state employ to steer social science research towards topics preferred by the regime? I researched the Chinese coauthor network of civil society studies, examining 14,088 researchers and their peer-reviewed journal articles published between 1998 and 2018. Models with individual and time fixed-effects reveal that scholars at the center of the network closely follow the narratives of the state’s policy plans and could serve as effective state agents. However, those academics who connect different intellectual communities tend to pursue novel ideas deviating from the official narratives. Funding is an ineffective direct means for co-opting individual scholars, possibly because it is routed through institutions. Combining these findings, this study proposes a preliminary formation of authoritarian knowledge regime that consists of (1) the state’s official narrative, (2) institutionalized state sponsorship, (3) co-opted intellectuals centrally embedded in scholarly networks, and (4) intellectual brokers as sources of novel ideas.

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“…Kreitmeyr (2019) argues that, in line with other countries in the region, the Moroccan economic liberalisation processes involved the formation of neoliberal entrepreneurial subjects that internalised market ideas, such as competition, responsibility, self-management and self-empowerment (Kreitmeyr, 2019: 291). Catusse (2008) also observed a shift in political and societal narratives concerning private enterprises, arguing that after an ambivalent attitude in the early 1990s there was the ‘time of the entrepreneurs as modern heroes’ in the early 2000s.…”

Section: The Moroccan Context and The Cjdmentioning

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Transnational identification processes: An association of young business leaders

Zølner

2021

Int'l Jnl of Cross Cultural Management

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This article raises the question of how organisational identification emerges at distance and across cultural contexts. The question is explored in an empirical study of identification processes among Moroccan members of an international association that assemble young leaders and entrepreneurs in small- and medium sized companies. On the basis of a narrative analysis of interviews, observations, and documents, the article illustrates two mutually reinforcing identification processes: One is based on face-to-face social interaction with likeminded peers locally; another is imaginary in the sense that the Moroccan members envision members in other countries to be like themselves and what they aspire to become. This contributes to crosscultural management literature in three ways: first, the study adopts a transnational lens that shows the need to go beyond a national perspective and to explore identification at the intersection between the global and local; second, the study draws on concepts of imagined community (Anderson, 1983) and community of sentiments (Appadurai, 1996) to conceptualise the imaginary part of the identification processes, which transcends locality. Third, the study contributes methodologically by showing how the distinction between translocal and local narratives allows to analyse the interplay between an imagined transnational community and a local face-to-face community.

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Neoliberal co-optation and authoritarian renewal: social entrepreneurship networks in Jordan and Morocco

Cited by 37 publications

References 29 publications

Global sociology revisited: Toward new directions

Global sociology revisited: Toward new directions

How Does an Authoritarian State Co-opt Its Social Scientists Studying Civil Society?

Transnational identification processes: An association of young business leaders

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