The Entrepreneurial Slum: Civil Society, Mobility and the Co-production of Urban Development Colin McFarlane [Paper first received, December 2010; in final form, May 2012] Abstract This paper explores the co-production of urban entrepreneurialism by examining the work of civil society groups in producing mobile models of slum entrepreneuri- alism. While slums and slum activists have been largely absent from accounts of urban entrepreneurialism, they increasingly play important roles in co-constituting mobile entrepreneurial models and in producing and valuing particular forms of entrepreneurial subjectivity. A focus on the co-production of entrepreneurialism requires attention to both the mobile models that constitute relations between differ- ent groups, from states and donors to activists and residents, and the local contexts and histories that shape, translate and differently enact entrepreneurialism. The paper concludes by highlighting three implications for research on urban entrepreneurialism. Introduction There is a wide-ranging debate on how ideologies of urban entrepreneurialism have led to critical shifts in how cities are man- aged. However, there has been little consid- eration of the place of slums and slum activists in the co-production of urban entrepreneurialism. While much of the debate on urban entrepreneurialism remains focused on policy e ´lites, I examine how civil society groups produce particular models of entrepreneurialism that are shaped and used by states and international institutions. The informal settlement emerges not simply as a space excluded from or resistant to entrepre- neurial strategies, but as a key frontier in the production of contemporary urban entre- preneurialism. I argue for greater attention to the co-production of entrepreneurialism and discuss two key characteristics. First, the bringing together of ostensibly distinct actors—ranging, for example, from the World Bank and policy consultants, to Colin McFarlane is in the Department of Geography, Durham University, Science Laboratories, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK. E-mail: colin.mcfarlane@durham.ac.uk. 49(13) 2795–2816, October 2012 0042-0980 Print/1360-063X Online Ó 2012 Urban Studies Journal Limited DOI: 10.1177/0042098012452460