Crafting social entrepreneuring: intra-sectional possibilities in responding to GBV

Hjorth, D and Painter, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7846-7220, 2026. Crafting social entrepreneuring: intra-sectional possibilities in responding to GBV. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. ISSN 0898-5626

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Abstract

The intersectional nature of gender-based violence (GBV) makes it unlikely that survivors can escape the socio-economic precarity that perpetuates this social ill. Current conceptualizations of the entrepreneurial process do not sufficiently account for the material constraints GBV survivors face in developing countries and/or in contexts of poverty, and as such, may not fully grasp their capacities to engage in social entrepreneuring. We develop a theoretical model, drawing on new materialist thinking, to enable a better grasp of the intra-organizational conditions and agency that may allow GBV survivors to engage in social entrepreneuring. More specifically, our interpretation of the materiality involved in craft-based social entrepreneuring in Watville allows us to conceptualize entrepreneurial becoming as an intra-sectional response to GBV. The study´s unique contribution is that we offer a new-materialist processual conceptualization of the emergence of social entrepreneuring amongst GBV survivors with intergenerational histories of trauma, inequality and poverty that perpetuate the social and economic precarity in South Africa post Covid-19. This enables a more precise grasp of the agency and intra-sectionality at work in the empirical realities of women engaging in craft-based social entrepreneurship, with implications for processual and new materialist research beyond this case.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
Creators:	Hjorth, D. and Painter, M.
Publisher:	Informa UK Limited
Date:	5 January 2026
ISSN:	0898-5626
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/08985626.2025.2610352 DOI 2580805 Other
Rights:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Entrepreneurship & Regional Development on 05 Jan 2026, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2025.2610352
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Melissa Cornwell
Date Added:	04 Mar 2026 10:12
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2026 10:12
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/55356

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