Julia Qermezi Huang
Trained by social enterprises as objects and instruments of development, Bangladesh's female “Information Agents” adopt the gendered flexibilities implied by new entrepreneurial livelihoods. Switching among multiple roles, these entrepreneurs defy social expectations and appear as ambiguous figures....
Julia Qermezi Huang
Abstract ‘Wrong‐number’ mobile‐phone relationships are initiated by men dialling random numbers, but they enable young women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh to experiment with the boundaries of fearful excitement; negotiate purdah , dowry, and gender norms; and reimagine their futures. These virtual rel...
Julia Qermezi Huang
Eleven Japanese corporate executives and 10 Bangladeshi village-based entrepreneurs stand around an array of gleaming solar panels perched precariously on piles of bricks and hay. Despite being labeled a “social enterprise,” this solar-energy initiative emerged neither from development planning nor ...
Julia Qermezi Huang
Young women walk the forefront of transformation as Bangladesh liberalizes its economy, decentralizes its state functions, and submits its poverty-alleviation plans to markets. Targeted by “financial-inclusion” and entrepreneurship-training programs as both the objects and instruments of economic gr...
Grace Mueller, Julia Qermezi Huang, Jacqui Bassett, Paige Chisholm et al.
ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship among marginalized people in Bangladesh involves social, political, and cultural struggle against immediate crises of poverty and enduring crises of class, caste, religious, and gendered exclusions. Drawing on 25 months of ethnographic research among entrepreneurs in rural ...
Julia Qermezi Huang
In To Be an Entrepreneur, Julia Qermezi Huang focuses on Bangladesh's iAgent social-enterprise model, the set of economic processes that animate the delivery of this model, and the implications for women's empowerment. The book offers new ethnographic approaches that reincorporate relational economi...
Sohini Kar
To Be an Entrepreneur: Social Enterprise and Disruptive Development in Bangladesh. By Julia Qermezi Huang. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. xix, 259 pp. ISBN: 9781501748271 (cloth). - Volume 80 Issue 3
Julia Qermezi Huang
Language: Research was conducted primarily in the Bangla (Bengali) language.I represent Bangla words as transcriptions (to be as phonetically accurate as possible) rather than transliterations, in order to capture more closely the nature of vernacular speech.Currency : In July 2013, the value of the...
Julia Qermezi Huang