PhD De­fence - En­rico Mac­ciò

 In order to obtain the PhD degree, Enrico Macciò has submitted his thesis entitled:   

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Craft entrepreneuring through the entanglements of practices, politics, and aesthetics   

How does craft emerge as entrepreneuring? Research on craft entrepreneurship has largely treated the entrepreneur as the primary agent of entrepreneurial activity. This thesis instead examines the practices and relations through which craft-based ventures are enacted and sustained. Drawing on a multi-sited, mobile ethnography of two Nordic craft ecosystems, and informed by practice theory and posthumanist thinking, it shows how craft entrepreneuring emerges as a slow mode of becoming-with. This mode takes shape through the entanglement of practices, politics, and aesthetics, in which human and more-than-human actors, such as technologies, tools, materials, and infrastructures, shape one another and take part in the ongoing becoming of entrepreneurial processes. Slowness, understood as attentiveness and care, opens up aesthetic engagement with otherness. It makes it possible to stay with the challenges and tensions of organizing alternatives rather than resolve them. In doing so, the thesis extends research on entrepreneuring beyond its processual and practice-oriented conceptualizations by highlighting its political and aesthetic dimensions. It also positions craft as a site for rethinking organizing, showing how alternative ways of organizing are practiced and sustained from within, rather than beyond, existing markets, infrastructures, and institutions.   

The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk  

The CBS PhD School will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence.

*Please note that the microphone and camera of all spectators must be turned off.