NEW PUBLICATION BY NURCE Decolonizing Entrepreneurship: Navigating, Resisting, and Transforming Patriarchy through Infrapolitics in Palestine and the Global South

Most entrepreneurship research still stares out of one small window, usually Western, usually economic, usually apolitical. But what if we opened a few more windows?

Shumaila Yousafzai’s new paper, with Wojdan Omran, “Decolonizing Entrepreneurship: Navigating, Resisting, and Transforming Patriarchy through Infrapolitics in Palestine and the Global South”, is an attempt to throw them wide open.

Together they explored what happens when women in the Global South, especially Palestine, use entrepreneurship not just to “empower themselves” (ugh, that phrase), but to subvert, resist, and reimagine in the quietest, smallest, and yet most powerful of ways. They trace how infrapolitics works through their choices, silences, symbols, and struggles, none of which fit neatly into traditional entrepreneurial theories.

It’s a paper stitched together with fragments of injustice, agency, and the messy in-betweens. It’s also a literature review—but not the boring kind.

And yes, it’s Open Access, thanks to our grant, because honestly, this publishing system—where we write, review, revise, and then pay to access our own work—is, for all its polish, perhaps one of the most elegant scams of our time. Let’s just say it’s not the kind of entrepreneurship we want to celebrate.

So if you’re tired of the same old views, come look out this window with us. You might just see resistance in a new light.