The Mobilization of Noncooperative Spaces: Reflections from Rohingya Refugee Camps
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Join Birkbeck's Responsible Business Centre for a research seminar exploring 'The Mobilization of Noncooperative Spaces: Reflections from Rohingya Refugee Camps'.
Speaker:
Dr Rashedur Chowdhury, Associate Professor at Southampton Business School, University of Southampton
Abstract:
In this essay, I challenge key assumptions in the mainstream entrepreneurship literature that individuals have the capability to change their fate through entrepreneurial activities wherever in the world they may be. I advance the concept of a coordinated and regulative cooperative market to argue that the rebalancing of power between marginalized actors such as refugees and ordinary locals, and powerful agents of what I term the ‘uncooperative sociostructure’ is essential in order to improve the wellbeing of refugees. Without a cooperative sociostructural intervention, capitalistic market mechanisms such as bottom of the pyramid (BoP) and microfinance as means to individual freedom simply imprison refugees further.
Available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joms.12612
Biography:
Rashedur Chowdhury (PhD, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge) is an Associate Professor at Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, and a Batten Fellow at Darden School of Business, University of Virginia (UVA). His thesis, ‘Reconceptualizing the dynamics of the relationship between marginalized stakeholders and multinational firms’, received the Society for Business Ethics Best Dissertation Award in 2014. He has been invited as a Visiting Scholar by INSEAD Business School; Darden, UVA; Faculty of Business and Economics, HEC Lausanne, Switzerland; Michael Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin; Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of the Western Cape; School of Government, Peking University; School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine; and Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. His most recent works focus on the Rana Plaza collapse and Phulbari movement in Bangladesh and violence against transgender people in Pakistan.
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Contact name:
Isobel Edwards