The rapid rise of alternative organisations such as social enterprises is largely due to the promotional activities of intermediary organisations. So far, little is known about the affective nature of such activities. The present article thus investigates how intermediary organisations make social entrepreneurship palatable for a broader audience by establishing it as an object of desire. Drawing on affect-oriented extensions of Laclau and Mouffe's poststructuralist theory, hegemonisation is suggested as a way of understanding how social entrepreneurship is articulated through a complementary process of signification and affective investment. Specifically, by examining Austrian intermediaries, we show how social entrepreneurship is endowed with a sense of affective thrust that is based on three interlocking dynamics: the articulation of fantasies such as 'inclusive exclusiveness', 'large-scale social change' and 'pragmatic solutions'; the repression of anxiety-provoking and contentious issues (constitutive quiescences); as well as the use of conceptually vague, floating signifiers (moments of indeterminacy). Demonstrating that the hegemonisation of social entrepreneurship involves articulating certain issues whilst, at the same time, omitting others, or rendering them elusive, the article invites a counter-hegemonic critique of social entrepreneurship, and, on a more general level, of alternative forms of organising, that embraces affect as a driving force of change, while simultaneously affirming the impossibility of harmony and wholeness.

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2017-11-27T16:26:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Sérgio Roberto Moraes Corrêa - Tese PPGCS 2014..pdf: 11207359 bytes, checksum: ed27ce3c686e6d60e2b86cc10cf90699 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-27T16:26:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sérgio Roberto Moraes Corrêa - Tese PPGCS 2014..pdf: 11207359 bytes, checksum: ed27ce3c686e6d60e2b86cc10cf90699 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-30 / Esta pesquisa analisa as lutas e resistências do Movimento Xingu Vivo Para Sempre (MXVPS) frente ao padrão de desenvolvimento dominante para a Amazônia, focando nos conflitos socioambientais em torno do Projeto de Aproveitamento Hidrelétrico Belo Monte (AHEBM), localizado no sudoeste do Estado do Pará. Para tanto, tomou como base a seguinte questão: as lutas e resistências do MXVPS frente a esse empreendimento hidrelétrico possibilitam identificar projetos de desenvolvimento que se colocam em perspectiva alternativa à hegemônica? Com isso, buscou identificar e analisar em que medida essas lutas e resistências do Movimento sinalizam com uma perspectiva contra-hegemônica. As noções de hegemonia e contra-hegemonia, baseadas em Boaventura de Sousa Santos, lastrearam a perspectiva crítica de análise. Com foco numa abordagem qualitativa, as estratégias metodológicas combinaram pesquisa bibliográfica, documental e de campo, neste caso com ênfase em observação participante e entrevistas semiestruturadas e em profundidade, dando relevo à história oral. Como resultado, foi possível identificar que o AHEBM é a expressão, por meio do PAC, da expansão da fronteira hidrelétrica no movimento de territorialização da dinâmica de acumulação do capital sobre a Amazônia sob forte influência do Estado, em parceria com grandes grupos econômicos, usando de violência institucional e simbólica para levar a cabo seu modelo neodesenvolvimentista. Dessa expansão da fronteira, vem ocorrendo um processo de desterritorialização na Região, o qual se expressa na expropriação, desintegração e precarização dos modos de vida de povos e comunidades tradicionais e camponesas, violando seus direitos fundamentais e pondo sob risco sua proteção física e social, além de comprometer o equilíbrio do ecossistema e do bioma amazônico. Isso caracteriza um processo, além de capitalista, colonialista. Essa expansão da fronteira hidrelétrica, todavia, não vem se dando sem contradições e conflitos, sem lutas e resistências a esse modelo. Seguindo essas pistas e esses sinais de contradições e conflitos, foi possível, também, capturar dinâmicas não hegemônicas (experiências e perspectivas sociais), a partir das resistências e das lutas do MXVPS, que se dão nesse brasil profundo e que ajudam a revelar outras imagens, representações e experiências da Amazônia, do Brasil e do Mundo. / This research analyzes the struggles and resistance of the Xingu Alive Forever Movement (MXVPS) against the dominant pattern of development for the Amazon, focusing on environmental conflicts around the Project Belo Monte Hydroelectric (AHEBM), located in the southwest of Pará. To do so, was based on the following question: the MXVPS’s struggles and resistances against this hydroelectric project possible to identify development projects that arise as an alternative to hegemonic perspective? Thus, we sought to identify and analyze the extent to which these struggles and resistances of this Movement signal with a counterhegemonic perspective. The concepts of hegemony and counter-hegemony, based on Boaventura de Sousa Santos, backed the critical analysis perspective. Focusing on a qualitative approach, the methodological strategies combined bibliographic, documental and empirical research, in this case with emphasis on participant observation and semi-structures interviews and in-depth, giving emphasis to oral history. As a result, we found that the AHEBM is the expression, through the PAC, the expansion of hydroelectric border movement of territorialization in the dynamics of capital accumulation on the Amazon under the strong influence of the state, in partnership with major economic groups, using institutional and symbolic violence to conduct your neo-desenvolvimentista model. This expansion of the border, there has been a process of deterritorialization in the region, which is expressed in the expropriation, disintegration and insecurity of livelihoods and traditional peoples and peasant communities, violating their fundamental rights and putting at risk their physical and social protection, besides disturbing the balance of the ecosystem and the Amazon biome. This characterizes a process, as capitalist and colonialist. This expansion of hydroelectric border, however, does not come without giving contradictions and conflicts, struggles and resistance to this model. Following these lanes and signs of these contradictions and conflicts, it was also possible to capture non-hegemonic dynamics (social experiences and perspectives), as of resistances and struggles of MXVPS that occur deep in Brazil and help reveal more images, representations and experiences of the Amazon, Brazil and the world.