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{"title":"Entrepreneurial Becomings: Transformation, Crisis, and Aspiration in the Global Rise of Microentrepreneurship","authors":"Piergiorgio Di Giminiani,&nbsp;Sally Babidge","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70038","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In the context of global economic and political crises, microentrepreneurship enjoys popularity both as a solution to poverty and as an empowering lifestyle based on values of independence and flexibility. While education, training, and engagement in entrepreneurship may have significant effects on self-making, social and economic change from entrepreneurial formation remains ambivalent. In this introductory essay, we set out how becoming an entrepreneur is an unfinished project in the lives of economic subjects, entailing practices actively tested, reconfigured as adaptive responses to individual and collective crises and aspirations, and conceived as related to an anticipated and critically assessed immediate future self.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145947277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Informality and Social Networking: The Huan Qian Practice of the Chinese Business Community in Morocco","authors":"Jason Jie Gao","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70027","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines the informal financial practice of <i>huan qian</i> within the Chinese business community in Casablanca, Morocco. <i>Huan qian</i>—a low-stakes, small-scale currency exchange primarily between Chinese business owners and expatriates—operates in a regulatory gray area but functions as a vital social and economic tool. Based on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Morocco (August 2022–December 2023), this study analyzes how and why members of the Chinese community engage in this informal practice to cultivate interpersonal trust and social networks, rather than to maximize short-term economic gain. By comparing <i>huan qian</i> to the more widely studied <i>hawala</i> system, the article underscores the distinct social logic of <i>huan qian</i> transactions, which initiate and strengthen social ties while reproducing hierarchical relationships within the diaspora. The concept of “networking informality” is introduced to capture how this everyday financial practice contributes to community cohesion and social order within the Chinese diaspora, while also fostering cross-cultural relationships with local Moroccans. In doing so, this research enriches the anthropological understanding of informality and the embeddedness of economic life, while offering new insights into the grounded, everyday dimensions of China–Africa and China–MENA relations beyond state-level or geopolitical frameworks.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146136202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Rare to Common: The Live Streaming Industry of Jadeite Trade in Ruili in the China–Myanmar Borderlands","authors":"Yi Ma","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70026","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since the early years of the 21st century, the city of Ruili has grown to be a major trade hub for Burmese jadeite on the China–Myanmar border. Starting from 2016 to 2017, Ruili's jadeite trade shifted heavily to online live streaming transactions through media platforms like Douyin, RedNote/Xiaohongshu, and Taobao/Tmall. This article showcases how the rise of a platform economy has fundamentally changed the settings of work and structures of jadeite trade in Ruili in the digital era. It investigates the inner workings of the live streaming industry and its influence on jadeite trade. I argue that the newly developed live streaming is a novel means that has transformed jadeite from previously being imagined as a rare and relatively expensive gemstone to a more affordable and common set of products in the spectrum of the digital platform economy. By focusing on the influence of the digital economy on commodities, this study showcases how digital platforms mediate expressions of power in online and offline worlds.</p>","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sea2.70026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145717539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Economic Anthropology","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70039","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sea2.70039","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146089522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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{"title":"The Other Half of the Ass: A Manifesto for Anthropology in Neo-Illiberal Times","authors":"Holly High","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70032","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70032","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;I applaud Michael Scroggins and his recommendations. In common with many readers of this journal, I have spent years reading about neoliberalism; now Scroggins provides a practical road map to put this knowledge into practice. Monetizing student anxiety, making markets out of lecture halls, commodifying success, and working behind a corporate shell: These are all excellent and workable suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scroggins errs in only two respects. First, he assumes that &lt;i&gt;the primary modality of the present is neoliberalism&lt;/i&gt;. Second, he assumes that &lt;i&gt;universities are concerned primarily with students&lt;/i&gt;. I unpack each of these errors in what follows. However, because these are interrelated issues, I unpack them together, like a single large piece of flat-packed furniture encased in multiple boxes. I argue, furthermore, that these issues are united by a single key (an Allen key or hex key, to force the simile onward into metaphor).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scroggins argues that today's university is half-assed neoliberal, but if that is so, then what is the other half of the ass? By unpacking Scroggins's argument and reassembling it with the aforementioned Allen key, my response pieces together the other half of the ass and suggests that this half is, in fact, the half-ass we should whole-ass.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scroggins defines &lt;i&gt;neoliberalism&lt;/i&gt; as making markets and suggests that the best path for anthropology is to go all in with the neoliberal flow. A clue to how outdated this idea is can be found in Scroggins's own epigraphs: Margaret Thatcher and Milton Friedman, both fossils dug up from the previous century! It is true that—had anthropology adopted Thatcher's and Friedman's excellent suggestions back in their day—the discipline would be reaping the benefits now. But that boat has sailed. Neoliberalism is passé. No doubt Scroggins is right that neoliberalism never did go far enough in anthropology. But just as we grasp the depth of the opportunity, it is slipping away, replaced by a new paradigm. Attempting to whole-ass neoliberalism now is too little, too late.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;First, consider the question of students. Scroggins notes that under neoliberalism, students are defined as consumers with outsized power over faculty. Yet this year alone, the United States canceled more than 6000 student visas. Closer to (my) home, in last year's federal election, Australian politicians competed with one another in promises to &lt;i&gt;restrict&lt;/i&gt; the lucrative international student market (even though education regularly ranks among Australia's top export earners, the only one of our top four exports that does not rely primarily on digging up rocks or drilling big holes). Despite the economic value of international students and immigration more generally to the Australian economy, August 2025 saw anti-immigration rallies organized by neo-Nazis in all major cities. If neoliberalism views students as cash cows in a market, neoliberal universities would open their arms wide to paying studen","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sea2.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145938020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Working the Fabric: Resourcefulness, Belonging and Island Life in Scotland's Harris Tweed Industry. By Joana Nascimento, Berghahn Books. 2023. 230 pp. New York: Berghahn Books Series: Anthropology at work; volume 4 ISBN: 9781800738829 (hardback) ISBN: 9781800738836 (ebook).","authors":"Genevieve Soucek","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70035","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145908387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Money, Rank and the Frailty of Authority: Schurtz’s World and Ours. An Outline of the Origins of Money By Heinrich Schurtz. Translated and Annotated and With an Introduction by Enrique Martino and Mario Schmidt (eds.), HAU Books, London. 2024. 274 pp. ISBN: 9781914363078 [paperback]; ISBN: 9781914363276 [PDF]; ISBN: 9781914363283 [e-book].","authors":"Bill Maurer","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70036","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145847247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon. By Maron E. Greenleaf, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 304 pp. Paper $27.95; Hardcover $104.95. Pages: 304; Illustrations: 21 illustrations; Published: November 2024. Paper ISBN: 978-1-4780-3108-6 / Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4780-2685-3 / eISBN: 978-1-4780-6007-9.","authors":"Eduardo Romero Dianderas","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70033","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145844760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}