2021
DOI: 10.1177/01708406211031730
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‘That’s Witchcraft’: Community entrepreneuring as a process of navigating intra-community tensions through spiritual practices

Abstract: This paper theorizes the spiritual processes of community entrepreneuring as navigating tensions that arise when community-based enterprises (CBEs) emerge within communities and generate socio-economic inequality. Grounded on an ethnographic study of a dairy CBE in rural Malawi, findings reveal that intra-community tensions revolve around the occurrence of ‘bad events’ – mysterious tragedies that, among their multiple meanings, are also framed as witchcraft. Community members prepare for, frame, cope, and buil… Show more

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“…Os arranjos materiais exercem um papel importante na organização das práticas (Thompson & Byrne, 2022), como demonstram alguns estudos baseados na abordagem de Schatzki. Por exemplo: Cucchi et al (2022) investigaram os processos espirituais do empreendedorismo comunitário e suas dificuldades quando empresas geram desigualdade econômica em uma comunidade baseada em valores igualitários. Os autores identificaram que práticas sociomateriais se entrelaçam com práticas espirituais, no sentido de amenizarem as tensões intracomunitárias decorrentes do empreendimento baseado na comunidade.…”
Section: Referencial Teórico O Contexto Brasileirounclassified
“…Os arranjos materiais exercem um papel importante na organização das práticas (Thompson & Byrne, 2022), como demonstram alguns estudos baseados na abordagem de Schatzki. Por exemplo: Cucchi et al (2022) investigaram os processos espirituais do empreendedorismo comunitário e suas dificuldades quando empresas geram desigualdade econômica em uma comunidade baseada em valores igualitários. Os autores identificaram que práticas sociomateriais se entrelaçam com práticas espirituais, no sentido de amenizarem as tensões intracomunitárias decorrentes do empreendimento baseado na comunidade.…”
Section: Referencial Teórico O Contexto Brasileirounclassified
“…This means time and temporal coordination is crucial. A good illustration for food entrepreneurship is provided by Cucchi et al ( 2021 ). Practices of everyday life take time to unfold.…”
Section: Contextual and Conceptual Backgroundmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In contrast, the role of entrepreneurship in coproducing urban food systems is seldom explicitly addressed. Even though entrepreneurship is considered a force of social change (Steyaert and Hjorth 2006;Calás et al 2018) and is known to emerge out of efforts of local communities to organize collectively (Cucchi et al 2021).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This means time and temporal coordination is crucial. A good illustration for food entrepreneurship is provided by Cucchi et al (2021). Practices of everyday life take time to unfold, for instance, it takes time to learn how to produce food.…”
Section: Urban Agriculture Entrepreneurship and Everyday Lived Experi...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In contrast, the role of entrepreneurship in coproducing urban food systems is seldom explicitly addressed. Even though entrepreneurship is considered a force of social change (Calás et al, 2018;Steyaert & Hjorth, 2006) and is known to emerge out of efforts of local communities to organise collectively (Cucchi et al, 2021).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%