Dr Josi Fernandez, a Lancaster University researcher in socio-spatial performance of markets, challenges our place-based view with a notion of stigmatisation of places that leads to diminished investment and exclusion from public policy and economic development. Josi brings her research findings from Brazilian favelas and links them to the potential of our own learning from this within-the-community driven entrepreneurial solutions. Could our place-based agenda be inspired by such innovative community empowerment?

 

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Resources

Fernandes, J, Mason, KJ & Chakrabarti, R 2019, ‘Managing to make market agencements: the temporally bound elements of stigma in favelas’, Journal of Business Research, vol. 95, pp. 128-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.10.006

Holmes, T, Fernandes, J & Palo, T 2021, ”Spatio-market practices’: conceptualising the always spatial dimensions of market making practices’, Academy of Marketing Science Review, vol. 11, no. 3-4, pp. 316-335. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13162-021-00203-1