Embodied Territories: The Gendered‐Classed Economies of Entrepreneurship in India
基于对印度58位创业者的质性研究，运用萨拉·艾哈迈德的情感经济理论，揭示性别与阶级体验如何影响女性创业者的日常实践，提出“具身领地”概念以理解创业工作的情感与情境协商。
Abstract While women’s entrepreneurship theory and practice have advanced significantly in the last few decades, the persistent challenges women entrepreneurs face suggest the need for novel theoretical insights that illuminate their experiences of entrepreneurship as an everyday, embodied practice. Drawing upon Sara Ahmed’s critical interpretive phenomenological account of affective economies and based on qualitative accounts from 58 entrepreneurs in India, this paper explores how gendered‐classed experiences enable or constrain embodied practices of women entrepreneurs in the Global South. We make two key contributions to women’s entrepreneurship literature within management studies. First, we show how gendered and classed experiences orientate entrepreneurs when navigating the possibilities and restrictions faced in everyday spaces of commerce. Second, we develop a theoretical understanding of the affective and situated negotiation of entrepreneurial work in situ through what we call the embodied territories of entrepreneurship. We discuss how ‘embodied territories’ provides an important counterpoint to cognition‐driven affect literature that dominates management research and advances the broader affective turn in management studies. Overall, this research presents an alternative way of understanding a hitherto overlooked perspective on how women embody, experience, and negotiate entrepreneurial spaces.