The relationship between Latin American ‘Pink Tide’ governments and neoliberal market policies has been a topic of research across academic fields. Yet more empirical, ethnographically grounded is needed on how neoliberalism shifts from being reigning economic doctrine to naturalized, common-sense logic, that logic operates among the masses within socio-political environment intent resisting ne...

Using Giddens’s structuration theory and empirical data from a study with social enterprise stakeholders, the article explores how entrepreneurs structure co-create one another. We show that development of contemporary significance entrepreneurialism lies in combination complex context-specific structural forces activities agents who initiate, demand, impose change. Social intentionally tackle ...

Articles in this special issue probe the relationships between strategies for upward socio-economic mobility and intergenerational aspirations Asia. With capitalism, urbanisation, mass media, education migration increasing throughout Asia, now is a time of flux opportunities subjectivities. Such changes are lived as deeply personal relational. Young people often instrumental to familial ‘develo...

Abstract Rapid urbanization in 21st-century China has been fraught with contested demolition, overdevelopment and shoddy infrastructure short lifespans. By viewing this as having “high metabolism” examining the urban scrap trade that is fuelled by its material outputs, article challenges a common assumption such form of merely wasteful problematic. Crucially, also puts rural migrants into motio...

Abstract This article examines the evolution of PN Review, a leading Manchester-based poetry magazine, in relation to second-wave feminism 1970s and 1980s. Largely funded by Arts Council Great Britain, magazine was initially not welcoming place for female poets contributors. Women’s often disparaged, few women contributed magazine. From early 1980s, however, Review started include more voices—a...

The general theme of coping with financial austerity has been prominent in thinking about the future of public higher education over the last two decades. Such thinking is often accompanied by a related theme in the future of public services generally—that of privatization. The generally tight fiscal environment for public services, including higher education, has not relaxed and, in many count...