The Mobilisation of Noncooperative Space: Reflections from Rohingya refugee camps

Seminar abstract

SEMINAR ABSTRACT:
In this essay, Dr Chowdhury challenges 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. He advances 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 he terms 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.

Further papers and information about noncooperative spaces:

• Essay
  
• Blog 
  
• A special issue based on the idea of noncooperative spaces where you can consider submitting a paper

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This seminar is free to attend with no need to register in advance.

Please join us online on Wednesday 9 March 2022 at 1pm.

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Speaker bio

Dr 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;
• 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.