Sarah-Jane Phelan
Biographic Data
| ID | 169746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah-Jane Phelan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah-Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Phelan |
| SIGNATURE | PHELAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5697-2322 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exhausting edges: Embodying frontiers of female entrepreneurship at a Burkina Faso market
Female entrepreneurship has long been socially and economically important in West Africa. However, the trope of the female entrepreneur as a poster child for neoliberal development has calcified and compounded women’s responsibility over recent decades, framed as ‘shock absorbers’ and engines of economic growth that can lift families and communities out of structural poverty and insecurity.Drawing on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork at a B…
Threadbare consultancy: Straining budget margins in for-profit international development programmes
Critical understandings of public outsourcing often caricature private contractors and consultancies as profiteering, giving little consideration to either end-beneficiaries or taxpayers. Drawing on qualitative interviews across a range of for-profit development firms in the United Kingdom, this paper shows how growing political scepticism has generated commercial pressure and an adversarial contracting environment, constraining operational possi…
The work of being stuck: Caring masculinities in Mali and Burkina Faso
This article draws on comparative ethnography undertaken in a Malian train station where trains no longer circulate, and a market in Burkina Faso where the flow of customers has ebbed away. In doing so, we explore how workers deal with protracted economic and security crises that have eroded their working lives and thrown the meaning of their labour into question. In both sites, the primarily male workers perpetuated their routines, not only to s…
Calculating Care: Working Out Ways Through (Economic) Insecurity at a Neighbourhood Market in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Drawing on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork, this article traces the everyday practices of vendors at Marché Collé, a neighbourhood market in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, as they calculated their way through uncertainty. As intensifying political and economic insecurity refracted into their businesses and moral worlds, the emotional and cognitive efforts of their calculative practices became heightened and more visible, illuminating what the…
The work of being stuck: Caring masculinities in Mali and Burkina Faso
This article draws on comparative ethnography undertaken in a Malian train station where trains no longer circulate, and a market in Burkina Faso where the flow of customers has ebbed away. In doing so, we explore how workers deal with protracted economic and security crises that have eroded their working lives and thrown the meaning of their labour into question. In both sites, the primarily male workers perpetuated their routines, not only to s…
The work of being stuck: Caring masculinities in Mali and Burkina Faso
This article draws on comparative ethnography undertaken in a Malian train station where trains no longer circulate, and a market in Burkina Faso where the flow of customers has ebbed away. In doing so, we explore how workers deal with protracted economic and security crises that have eroded their working lives and thrown the meaning of their labour into question. In both sites, the primarily male workers perpetuated their routines, not only to s…
Calculating Care: Working Out Ways Through (Economic) Insecurity at a Neighbourhood Market in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Drawing on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork, this article traces the everyday practices of vendors at Marché Collé, a neighbourhood market in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, as they calculated their way through uncertainty. As intensifying political and economic insecurity refracted into their businesses and moral worlds, the emotional and cognitive efforts of their calculative practices became heightened and more visible, illuminating what the…
Exhausting edges: Embodying frontiers of female entrepreneurship at a Burkina Faso market
Female entrepreneurship has long been socially and economically important in West Africa. However, the trope of the female entrepreneur as a poster child for neoliberal development has calcified and compounded women’s responsibility over recent decades, framed as ‘shock absorbers’ and engines of economic growth that can lift families and communities out of structural poverty and insecurity.Drawing on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork at a B…
Threadbare consultancy: Straining budget margins in for-profit international development programmes
Critical understandings of public outsourcing often caricature private contractors and consultancies as profiteering, giving little consideration to either end-beneficiaries or taxpayers. Drawing on qualitative interviews across a range of for-profit development firms in the United Kingdom, this paper shows how growing political scepticism has generated commercial pressure and an adversarial contracting environment, constraining operational possi…
Geography (2 works) · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender (2 works) · Socioeconomics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Work (physics (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (1 works) · Agency (philosophy) (1 works) · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues (1 works) · Capitalism (1 works)