Social enterprise and the everydayness of precarious Indigenous Cambodian villagers : challenging ethnocentric epistemologies

This chapter investigates the narrative strategies of ethnic minority entrepreneurs in the creative industries to acquire legitimacy in their professional field. Despite recent research in the stream of critical entrepreneurship studies that take up the ethnic minority entrepreneurs’ own point of view (eg Essers and Benschop 2007, 2009; Essers et al. 2013; Pio 2005, 2007; Raghuram and Hardill 1998), we still see featuring in the bulk of ethnic minority entrepreneurship literature a paradigm that is overlooking the individual level, and which tends to focus on macro-structural characteristics constraining and/or enabling entrepreneurial actions of the group as a whole