Caroline Shenaz Hossein
Caroline Shenaz Hossein is Canada Research Chair of Africana Development & Feminist Political Economy and Full Professor of Global Development at the University of Toronto. She is member of the Royal Society of Canada’s New College. Hossein is the founder of the Diverse Solidarity Economies (DISE) Collective, and her research navigates solidarity economies–a movement started in the Global South–which prioritizes social profitability over financial gain. Her new co-authored book With Cambridge UP is titled ‘Inventorying African Diaspora Economics’ (with S.D. Wright Austin and T. Esnard). Hossein is the author of the award-winning books ‘Politicized Microfinance’ (2016) and ‘The Banker Ladies’ by the University of Toronto Press (2024); as well as co-author of ‘Critical Introduction to Business and Society’ (2017); editor of ‘The Black Social Economy’ (2018), co-editor of ‘Community Economies in the Global South’ (2022) and ‘Beyond Racial Capitalism: Cooperatives in the African Diaspora’ (2023) both by Oxford University Press. Prior to becoming an academic, she worked for 16 years in a number of global organizations in economic development. Follow her work and The DISE Collective at www.Africanaeconomics.com
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EP 22 Caroline Shenaz Hossein: Credit & Community; The Banker Ladies' Way
When Vinny discovered Caroline Shenaz Hossein's The Banker Ladies in audiobook format, he had found something rare: rigorous scholarship on Black cooperative economics...
