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Accepted Paper:

Re-distribution of politics through local-scale social entrepreneurship  
Hsiu-Hsin Lin (National Chiao-Tung University)

Paper short abstract:

There is a new wave of 'local-scale social entrepreneurship' happening in Taiwan. Through this type of 'hand-crafting community', they constitute a new form of politic which has the potential to change the too globally dominated 'state politics'.

Paper long abstract:

In face of the globalization's abstractness, there is a new wave of "local-scaled social entrepreneurship" occurred in Taiwan. The new generation graduated from the discipline of sociology and anthropology breaks a new path for their future profession. They choose a locality, not necessary their hometown, to start their social enterprise. This type of social enterprise is distinct from its original form in UK. The newly graduated young people combine the domains of agriculture, hand-crafts, social work and local politics to form their mini-scale entrepreneurship. This new type of social movements opens a new scope to view the world, a revalue to the concreteness, hand-crafting, and proximity. But it's neither a type of de-politics nor a regression to the local womb. On the opposite, these young people aware of the political impact are the frequent protestors against the state's politics which too often compromise with the global sized corporation. Through this type of "hand-crafting community", they help the promotion of agriculture, revive the crafts work, arrange the mini local trip, accept the foreign backpack students for life experience, finally create a new distribution of the sensible. Then they constitute a new form of politic which is potential to change the too global dominated "state politics".

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Knowing by doing: manual work and social resilience
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