Precarious entrepreneurship
Mobile phones, work and kinship in neoliberal Peru
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19005693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A B Stensrud (0000-0002-1441-0313, Department of Social Anthropology; University of Oslo; PO Box 1091 Blindern 0317 Oslo Norway, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 159-173 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-0282 • E-ISSN: 1469-8676 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1469-8676.12395 |
| OpenAlex | W2613551952 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 29 |
In the first decade of the 21st century, a new niche opened up in the street economy of Cusco, a city in the Southern Peruvian Andes: the sale of calls between mobile phones. This article shows that the neoliberal policies of deregulation that enabled the mobile phone call business have also produced new regulatory spaces that small‐scale entrepreneurs have to manage in their relationships to the authorities. Through the story of a family business, the author discusses the relationships between precariousness, informality, uncertainty and ambiguity, and focuses on the tensions that arise in kinship relationships that are affective and supportive, yet also exploitative. The main argument is that there are different modes of precarity, and that kinship, which mostly has been thought of as security in an uncertain world, in fact can exacerbate a precarious condition
Ambiguity · Deregulation · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Kinship · Market economy · Mobile phone · Political economy · Political science · Precarity · Sociology · Telecommunications · Anthropology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Taxation and Compliance Studies
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |