I seek to open a space for discussion of 'acts of learning' by diving into sustainability entrepreneurs and their activities to investigate the ways in which they transform socio-material environments and embody in new ultra-social collectivities to provide new understandings of 'acts of learning'.
Paper long abstract:
Research on sustainability entrepreneurship in the different settings in the world might provide novel insights about reasoning in which acts of learning (Hasse & Clausen) play a significant role and might inform our understanding of the present challenges with advancing the Sustainable Development Goals. Often entrepreneurs incite social change (Barth) at a local, regional, and societal level through impacting their customers, employees, and communities (Clausen, 2017; Dana et al, 2014). However, little is known about how entrepreneurs learn to act: to respond to, localize, and advance the SDGs. The presentation investigates with point of departure in Cathrine Hasse’s (2020theoretical perspective on socratic ignorance how entrepreneurs in different local initiatives address, shape and are influenced by their surroundings and how a more fine-grained understanding of entrepreneurs acts of learning might advance the SDGs. The empirical settings are: 1) the Mexican village, Tulum where Mexican, Mayan, and Italian entrepreneurs localize the global climate change agenda using plastic bottles to negotiate the political (regional and local) space. 2) the Moroccan village, Tiznit, a female entrepreneur sets up a Fair trade argan cooperative using innovative technologies (concretely to process argan into oil) but also to overcome constraints in highly patriarchal communities. 3) the Nepalese area, Annapurna where a Danish/English/Nepalese research group where to develop a new trail system for future European travelers but due to COVID19 part of the identification of sustainable trails, hostels etc. went online and materialities became mediated by technologies such as video, and GPS systems which created insight into acts of learning.
All though sustainability entrepreneurship literature in its core is about change, adapting and learning the literature pays less attention to how sustainability activities respond and attend to knowledge sharing, to collaboration between actors and co-creating technologies – as acts of learning. The presentation seeks to open a progressive space for dialogue and discussion to provide new understandings of learning using entrepreneurship and the sustainability agenda as an entry point.
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Paper long abstract:
Research on sustainability entrepreneurship in the different settings in the world might provide novel insights about reasoning in which acts of learning (Hasse & Clausen) play a significant role and might inform our understanding of the present challenges with advancing the Sustainable Development Goals. Often entrepreneurs incite social change (Barth) at a local, regional, and societal level through impacting their customers, employees, and communities (Clausen, 2017; Dana et al, 2014). However, little is known about how entrepreneurs learn to act: to respond to, localize, and advance the SDGs. The presentation investigates with point of departure in Cathrine Hasse’s (2020theoretical perspective on socratic ignorance how entrepreneurs in different local initiatives address, shape and are influenced by their surroundings and how a more fine-grained understanding of entrepreneurs acts of learning might advance the SDGs. The empirical settings are: 1) the Mexican village, Tulum where Mexican, Mayan, and Italian entrepreneurs localize the global climate change agenda using plastic bottles to negotiate the political (regional and local) space. 2) the Moroccan village, Tiznit, a female entrepreneur sets up a Fair trade argan cooperative using innovative technologies (concretely to process argan into oil) but also to overcome constraints in highly patriarchal communities. 3) the Nepalese area, Annapurna where a Danish/English/Nepalese research group where to develop a new trail system for future European travelers but due to COVID19 part of the identification of sustainable trails, hostels etc. went online and materialities became mediated by technologies such as video, and GPS systems which created insight into acts of learning.
All though sustainability entrepreneurship literature in its core is about change, adapting and learning the literature pays less attention to how sustainability activities respond and attend to knowledge sharing, to collaboration between actors and co-creating technologies – as acts of learning. The presentation seeks to open a progressive space for dialogue and discussion to provide new understandings of learning using entrepreneurship and the sustainability agenda as an entry point.
Anthropology as education
Session 1