Personal and global economies: Male carpet manufacturers as entrepreneurs in the weaving neighborhoods of Konya, Turkey

Isik, Damla

doi:10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01241.x

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“…Recognizing the economic potential of small, family‐owned and ‐operated businesses as drivers of development was an important breakthrough that showed a unique, emic interpretation, beyond external arguments of nepotism. Ethnographic investigations around entrepreneurial activities continue to show alternative ways of thinking about localized business practices within expanding capitalist markets (e.g., Isik ).…”

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Drivers and deterrents of entrepreneurial enterprise in the risk‐prone Global South

Lundy

Patterson

O'Neill

2017

Economic Anthropology

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Through the case of Guinea-Bissau, this article considers how small-scale, often cross-border entrepreneurs mitigate risk and establish resilient businesses able to cope with ongoing political and economic shocks. Nineteen interviews and 153 surveys were conducted over two months with business leaders and regulators within the commercial centers and markets of Guinea-Bissau to assess entrepreneurial profiles and activities. Findings show that small-scale private investment from the Global South is increasing. Through thematic analysis, 18 different drivers of foreign business and 23 impediments to foreign entrepreneurship and investment were identified within this risk-prone environment. Limited assets imply limited opportunities, suggesting a need to mobilize all available resources to achieve entrepreneurial success. The implications of this research are that resiliency for these foreign investors has improved and risks are mitigated through established social capital that can be converted into financial capital, linked social-business networks across borders, microenvironmental knowledge, and maintaining relatively small businesses able to fly "under the radar." In understanding foreign entrepreneurs' motives, the social and structural undergirding of South-South investment is exposed.

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Section: Entrepreneurial Anthropologymentioning

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Drivers and deterrents of entrepreneurial enterprise in the risk‐prone Global South

Lundy

Patterson

O'Neill

2017

Economic Anthropology

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“…A number of 2010 articles look at the effects of free‐market global capitalism in postsocialist economies, postdevelopment economies, or other settings in which individuals are engaging with “neoliberalism” as a locally defined category. For instance, Damla Isik (2010) covers changing labor conditions in her ethnography of male carpet‐manufacturing entrepreneurs in Turkey, and Noelle Molé (2010) looks at the phenomenon of workplace psychological harassment (“mobbing”) that arises during the transition to a semipermanent labor market in Italy. Aaron Ansell (2010) contends that, in a currency‐stabilized Brazil, value systems initially threatened by the monetization of local elections have been reestablished through fundraising auctions.…”

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Anthropology Becoming … ? The 2010 Sociocultural Anthropology Year in Review

Hamilton

Placas²

2011

American Anthropologist

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In this article, we seek to outline some of the key impulses, both substantive and methodological, in cultural anthropology in 2010 as represented in the four main peer-reviewed journals: American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, and Current Anthropology. We identify four main themes of particular significance in terms of theoretical intervention and methodological innovation: Gilles Deleuze, indigeneity, natureculture (multispecies ethnography), and security. [Deleuze, indigeneity, multispecies ethnography, natureculture, security]Between things does not designate a localizable relation going from one thing to the other and back again, but a perpendicular direction, a transversal movement that sweeps one and the other away, a stream without beginning or end that undermines its banks and picks up speed in the middle.-Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

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“…Thus, rather than deploying what my interlocutors referred to as “debt‐based” contracts that replicate the structure of interest‐bearing loans, in Malaysian Islamic finance today there are increasingly vocal calls to shift toward “equity‐based” contracts that promote investment, partnership, and risk sharing. Building on work that has examined the articulation of state power and market exchange (Vasantkumar ) and Islam and entrepreneurialism (Fischer ; Isik ; Osella and Osella ; Sloane ), I argue that this shift creates a form of Islamic neoliberalism that deploys contractual forms endorsed in Islam's main texts, the Qur'an and the hadiths , to elicit entrepreneurial, risk‐taking subjects who are less dependent on state patronage. In so doing, I further argue that this form of neoliberalism is distinctive for its refusal of a narrowly self‐interested subject and its embrace of what I term collaborative risk.…”

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Subjects of Debt: Financial Subjectification and Collaborative Risk in Malaysian Islamic Finance

Rudnyckyj

2017

American Anthropologist

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This article argues the Malaysian state has developed Islamic finance in conjunction with two distinct strategies of subject formation. In its first phase, in the 1980s, a central objective was the financial inclusion of Malays. Islamic finance was part of an identity-building project and intended to integrate this disadvantaged indigenous majority into the national economy. By the 2000s the state had succeeded in fostering a Malay Muslim middle class through aggressive affirmative action policies. Currently, Islamic finance is being redeployed as a technique for the neoliberal entrepreneurialization of the Malay Muslim population. Empirically, this shift is evident in efforts by experts to move Islamic finance away from a reliance on what they call "debt-based" devices to ones referred to as "equity based." This entails substituting devices that reformers contend replicate the credit and lending instruments characteristic of "conventional finance" with instruments instead premised on investment, partnership, and risk sharing that they argue more faithfully adhere to the discursive tradition of Islam. [Islam, development, neoliberalism, Islamic finance, debt] ABSTRAK Artikel ini bertujuan untuk membincangkan perihal negeri Malaysia yang telah membangunkan kewangan Islam seiring dengan dua strategi berbeza dalam pembentukan subjek tersebut. Dalam fasa pertama yang berlangsung sekitar tahun 1980-an, objektif utama adalah kemasukan masyarakat Melayu dalam bidang kewangan.Kewangan Islam adalah sebahagian daripada projek pembangunan identiti yang bertujuan untuk mengintegrasikan majoriti daripada kelompok bumiputera yang kurang bernasib baik dalam ekonomi negara. Menjelang tahun 2000-an, negeri ini telah berjaya mengangkat kelas pertengahan Muslim Melayu asli melalui dasar-dasar tindakan afirmatif yang agresif. Pada masa ini, kewangan Islam diatur semula sebagai teknik untuk pengusahawanan neo-liberal masyarakat Melayu Islam. Secara empirik, peralihan ini amat ketara dalam usaha para pakar untuk mengggerakkan

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Personal and global economies: Male carpet manufacturers as entrepreneurs in the weaving neighborhoods of Konya, Turkey

Cited by 11 publications

References 47 publications

Drivers and deterrents of entrepreneurial enterprise in the risk‐prone Global South

Drivers and deterrents of entrepreneurial enterprise in the risk‐prone Global South

Anthropology Becoming … ? The 2010 Sociocultural Anthropology Year in Review

Subjects of Debt: Financial Subjectification and Collaborative Risk in Malaysian Islamic Finance

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