Human-animal mutualism in regenerative entrepreneurship
通过南巴塔哥尼亚一家再生农业企业的民族志研究,揭示了企业与动物之间通过共同野化、矛盾关系性和任务相互依赖三种实践形成的互惠共生关系,对关注再生创业和农村创业的学者有参考价值。
In this paper, we explore the micro-interactions through which a regenerative enterprise engages with proximate natural ecosystems in its attempt to repair and protect them. Through an ethnographic study of a regenerative farming enterprise in rural Southern Patagonia -Fundo Panguilemu -we discover a reciprocal relationship between the enterprise and animals, central to their regenerative efforts. This relationship is formed and actively maintained by the founders through three practicesjoint rewilding, ambivalent relationality, and task interdependence. We leverage nature relatedness to conceptualize the relationship between these practices as human-animal mutualism in regenerative work. We advance regenerative entrepreneurship research by revealing novel human-nature interactions formed and fostered by a rural enterprise in the pursuit of local regeneration and expand our understanding of microlevel phenomena in rural entrepreneurship.