Social entrepreneurship before neoliberalism?: The life and work of Akhtar Hameed Khan

Lewis, David ORCID: 0000-0003-0732-9020 (2019) Social entrepreneurship before neoliberalism?: The life and work of Akhtar Hameed Khan. Social Policy Working Paper Series (02-19). The London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Social Policy, London, UK.

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Abstract

The life history method can be used to historicise the study of social and public policy. Reviewing the life and work of Pakistani social entrepreneur A.H. Khan provides a useful reminder that what Jyoti Sharma recently termed ‘the neoliberal takeover of social entrepreneurship’ is a relatively recent phenomenon. While Khan’s achievements across the public and non-governmental (NGO) sectors continue to be debated amongst scholars and activists in South Asia, his life and work – which is not well known in the Global North as it perhaps should be – highlights a much broader and more inclusive way of thinking about the social entrepreneur as an organiser of change

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Additional Information:	© 2019 The Author
Divisions:	Social Policy
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Date Deposited:	19 Feb 2019 14:48
Last Modified:	14 Nov 2024 20:09
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/100113

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