Speculative futures at the bottom of the pyramid.
Abstract: 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 conflicting) temporalities – the practi...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 233 - 256 |
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Jun2018
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