ABSTRACT This article examines the labor that goes into the categorization of practices as “corrupt” in the context of India's popular politics. Focusing on the rise of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a political party that emerged from a widely publicized 2010s anticorruption mass movement in India, I introduce the term corruption prospecting to describe the often laborious methods through which leaders and volunteers probed for, labeled, and publicized actions as “corrupt.” The AAP's prospecting methods included informal surveys, sting operations, and helplines. It is these generative material practices that established “corruption” as a political resource for the fledgling party. “Corruption” as categorization accrued value not necessarily through eliminatory efforts but through the circulation and media amplification of corruption's purported discovery and exposure. Corruption charges have long been used to sustain political legitimacy. This article contributes to the anthropology of corruption by shifting disciplinary attention from discourse and representation to the work that goes into making a corruption allegation recognizable and actionable in an ever more mediatized and technologized context. A decade after its spectacular win in Delhi, the AAP found itself mired in corruption allegations, revealing corruption prospecting to be nonproprietorial, contingent, and multiscalar.

ABSTRACT In this article, I explore the everyday practices of a garazhnik , a type of contemporary socioeconomic actor characteristic of post‐Soviet Russia, where many garages are turned into spaces of production. On the basis of ethnographic data and secondary sources, I demonstrate that the phenomenon of garazhniki and the larger “garage economy” they take part in emerged at the intersection of Soviet urban forms and post‐Soviet economic realities. Then, I examine the practices of a particular garazhnik in a monotown—that is, roughly the Soviet equivalent of a company town—in Eastern Siberia. Through this example, I demonstrate that practices of gleaning and trade on the margins of postsocialist capitalism in this town are contingent on the material remainders of state socialism. Furthermore, I highlight the critiques implicit in the political imaginary that drives the practices of this particular garazhnik , who dismisses the state‐proposed postindustrial future as unsustainable and unappealing. This article is based on ethnographic data from fieldwork carried out in Eastern Siberia in the period 2019–22.

ABSTRACT 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.

ABSTRACT Women's role in fisheries has generally been underrecognized, both in science and in society. Engaging with anthropological and interdisciplinary literature on women in fisheries, as well as discussions about gender perspectives in studies of political economy, this article explores how women in the Spanish fishery sector are organizing and strategizing to rectify their historically marginalized position and improve their social and economic rights. Drawing on fieldwork with the Spanish National Association for Women in Fisheries and in fishing communities in northwestern/northern Spain, I explore how the historical insertion of women into fisheries has relegated them to an economically, socially, politically, and symbolically inferior subject position. Furthermore, I examine how this historical marginalization is reproduced, and contested, in a context where public authorities are recognizing and supporting fisherwomen's organizations. The article foregrounds the composite challenges that women face as they endeavor to strengthen and legitimate themselves as fishery workers and how state institutions and legislation at times pose further barriers to their struggles. The analysis thus illuminates how state support is not a panacea for empowering female fishers but rather only a first step toward addressing the compound obstacles to gender equality in the sector.

ABSTRACT In his “modest proposal for university reform”, Scroggins (this issue) makes the case that faculty must adapt to the neoliberal reality of higher education by revising their approaches to public scholarship and to pedagogy. I expand on his arguments, focusing on the key role played by university administrators in perfecting the modern university. I also provide a number of suggestions for administrators to more effectively promote the central institutional missions of maximizing profit while minimizing legal liability.