Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 136
Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-78661-107-9 • Hardback • December 2019 • $166.00 • (£129.00)
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Carolina Bandinelli is Assistant Professor in Media and Creative Industries at the Centre for Cultural & Media Policy Studies, University of Warwick.
Chapter I. The rise of social entrepreneurship
Chapter II. Neoliberalism and the entrepreneurialisation of the self
Chapter III. Becoming a social entrepreneur
Chapter IV. The good, the bad and the millennials: the ethical inward turn
Chapter V. Flawed re-enchantment: finding the political in neoliberal societies.
Conclusion. Future after future: social entrepreneurs and the changemaker generation
Prepare to be surprised, intellectually inspired and entertained, all at the same time. Bandinelli's highly original book represents a landmark in the studies of the social enterprise by offering a timely analysis of the under-examined practices and subjectivities of young social entrepreneurs, who believe that they can "change the world" precisely by embracing entrepreneurialism. Bandinelli places the figure of the social entrepreneur firmly at the centre of contemporary neoliberal capitalism's contradictions, thus shedding compelling light on the complex and even troubling ethical and political circumstances we all live in. — Federica Frabetti, Senior Lecturer in Communication, Media and Culture, Oxford Brookes University
This is an important and marvellously original work. Bandinelli is an outstanding ethnographer and writer, she also tackles questions here which are at the forefront of the modern work society. Drawing on sociology and cultural studies this book makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of social entrepreneurship.
— Angela McRobbie, Author of Feminism and the Politics of Resilience, Polity 2020