ABSTRACT

Background: This paper explores traditional iterations of, and new challenges to, the tightly linked discourses of entrepreneurship and innovation within the maker movement.

Methods: In a yearlong critical ethnographic study with 12 youth makers, we investigated how youth engaged with and redefined entrepreneurialism through their identity work as justice-oriented, community makers.

Findings: Examining youth experiences of entering their making designs into a regional youth Entrepreneurial Faire, we found that the dominant cultures of making and entrepreneurialism at the Faire presented limited opportunities for equitable participation in either. However, youth makers’ community justice-oriented efforts disrupted relationships of power among youth, adults, STEM-rich making, and society. Their critical youth approach argued for a new vision for entrepreneurialism/entrepreneurship. Youth reconfigured a critical maker-entrepreneurialism through practices multidimensionally grounded in a) re-humanizing making and b) building community. Their public discourses highlighted what this effort could produce for community justice and community well-being. Their critical reconfiguration actions revealed and challenged inequitable values and practices driven by inherent White, male, middle-class bias and neoliberalism.

Contribution: Youth efforts call for a re-imagination and new recognition of what counts as participation, expertise, and success in both making and entrepreneurialism. We discuss implications for a more socially just entrepreneurialism.

摘要

背景：本文探讨了制造者运动中有关企业家精神和创新的紧密联系的传统传承和新挑战。

方法：在为期一年的对12名青年制造者的批判人种志研究中，我们调查了青年如何通过以正义为导向的社区制造者的身份工作来参与并重新定义企业家精神。

调查结果：通过考察青年将其设计作品纳入区域青年企业家博览会的经验，我们发现，博览会上的主导文化和企业家精神为平等地参与其中提供了有限的机会。但是，青年制造者以社区正义为导向的努力破坏了青年，成年人，富含STEM的制造者和社会之间的权力关系。他们批判性的青年态度为企业家精神/企业家精神提出了新的视野。青年重新构造了批判性的企业家精神通过多方面的实践建立在a）使制作人性化和b）建立社区中。他们的公开演讲强调了这一努力可以为社区正义和社区福祉带来什么。他们的批判性重构行动揭示并挑战了固有的白人，男性，中产阶级偏见和新自由主义所驱动的不平等价值观和做法。

贡献：青年的努力要求对创造和企业家精神中的参与，专业知识和成功进行重新想象和重新认识。我们讨论了更公正的企业家精神的含义。