Stefanie Mauksch
Biographic Data
| ID | 88626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefanie Mauksch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Mauksch |
| SIGNATURE | MAUKSCH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leipzig University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8822-4380 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Competition as participation
This article explores the increasing use of competitions to distribute scarce jobs among educated young people in urban Africa. Based on research on the entrepreneurship competition Mashrouy in Sudan and the government-run Concours in Mali, we explore how university graduates continued to join competitions despite considering ‘winning a proper job’ highly unlikely. Interweaving debates on neoliberalism in Africa with classical anthropological wor…
Being in Work
In this paper, we carve out “being in work” as people’s desire and effort to habituate themselves in experiences of work. We do so from the unusual angle of two disabled persons, Bibek and Neema, who struggle for work in Nepal and Tanzania. Drawing on disability anthropology and the anthropology of work, we show how our interlocutors circumstantially emphasize different ways to be in work and engage in activities that broaden the horizons of what…
"Introduction to "Laboring from ex-centric Sites
The transition to industrial regimes has produced new categories of people deemed "unfit" for labor. Even if these boundaries are more porous nowadays, contributions to this Special Issue reveal continuities in how people struggle for a place in domains of work that are ill-shaped to accommodate their diverse bodyminds. Drawing on disability/chronicity cases from India, Germany, Mexico, Turkey, Brazil/Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United …
Treating disability as an asset (not a limitation)
Social enterprises play an increasing role in providing employment opportunities for disabled people. This paper examines the implications of social enterprises’ market-based approach to disability inclusion, which is characterized by viewing disability as an asset rather than a limitation. Taking our inspiration from critical disability scholars who have pointed out that inclusion agendas produce disability as a distinct social reality, we use a…
Being blind, being exceptional
In this article, I investigate how social enterprises identify the talents of groups of disabled people and match them to a market demand. Through the study of a blind massage enterprise in Nepal, I undo the workings of an ambivalent form of entrepreneurship that presents disabled people as gifted. I explore shifts that evolve from the selective inclusion of individuals based on stereotyped qualities associated with their bodily condition – in th…
Who is an expert for foresight? A review of identification methods
Managing the dance of enchantment
This article sheds light on public performances as important yet neglected sites for social entrepreneurship’s discursive expansion as a fashionable model for social transformation. It approaches the strategic considerations behind presentations aimed at ‘enchanting’ social entrepreneurship through sophisticated investments in spiritual, aesthetic and bodily involvement, and the impressive staging of Muhammad Yunus as a global hero. On a first an…
Being blind, being exceptional
In this article, I investigate how social enterprises identify the talents of groups of disabled people and match them to a market demand. Through the study of a blind massage enterprise in Nepal, I undo the workings of an ambivalent form of entrepreneurship that presents disabled people as gifted. I explore shifts that evolve from the selective inclusion of individuals based on stereotyped qualities associated with their bodily condition – in th…
Managing the dance of enchantment
This article sheds light on public performances as important yet neglected sites for social entrepreneurship’s discursive expansion as a fashionable model for social transformation. It approaches the strategic considerations behind presentations aimed at ‘enchanting’ social entrepreneurship through sophisticated investments in spiritual, aesthetic and bodily involvement, and the impressive staging of Muhammad Yunus as a global hero. On a first an…
Who is an expert for foresight? A review of identification methods
Being blind, being exceptional
In this article, I investigate how social enterprises identify the talents of groups of disabled people and match them to a market demand. Through the study of a blind massage enterprise in Nepal, I undo the workings of an ambivalent form of entrepreneurship that presents disabled people as gifted. I explore shifts that evolve from the selective inclusion of individuals based on stereotyped qualities associated with their bodily condition – in th…
Treating disability as an asset (not a limitation)
Social enterprises play an increasing role in providing employment opportunities for disabled people. This paper examines the implications of social enterprises’ market-based approach to disability inclusion, which is characterized by viewing disability as an asset rather than a limitation. Taking our inspiration from critical disability scholars who have pointed out that inclusion agendas produce disability as a distinct social reality, we use a…
"Introduction to "Laboring from ex-centric Sites
The transition to industrial regimes has produced new categories of people deemed "unfit" for labor. Even if these boundaries are more porous nowadays, contributions to this Special Issue reveal continuities in how people struggle for a place in domains of work that are ill-shaped to accommodate their diverse bodyminds. Drawing on disability/chronicity cases from India, Germany, Mexico, Turkey, Brazil/Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United …
Competition as participation
This article explores the increasing use of competitions to distribute scarce jobs among educated young people in urban Africa. Based on research on the entrepreneurship competition Mashrouy in Sudan and the government-run Concours in Mali, we explore how university graduates continued to join competitions despite considering ‘winning a proper job’ highly unlikely. Interweaving debates on neoliberalism in Africa with classical anthropological wor…
Being in Work
In this paper, we carve out “being in work” as people’s desire and effort to habituate themselves in experiences of work. We do so from the unusual angle of two disabled persons, Bibek and Neema, who struggle for work in Nepal and Tanzania. Drawing on disability anthropology and the anthropology of work, we show how our interlocutors circumstantially emphasize different ways to be in work and engage in activities that broaden the horizons of what…
Political science (5 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (4 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (4 works) · Entrepreneurship (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Work (physics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Conviction (2 works) · Disability studies (2 works)