Our analysis offers new perspectives on how craft-based forms of social entrepreneuring may be conceptualised. This is motivated by the fact that we presently do not have theoretical support for describing, analysing, and understanding the relational-affective proto-organizational from which organising capacity emerges, and which are required in settings where formal organisations and institutions are absent or corrupted.

In empirical contexts characterised by resource scarcity and precarious life, and we argue that our South African case is an example of this, social entrepreneurship looks different. It needs to operate on the basis of partial resources, institutional environments characterised by corruption, and limited support by the educational system.

Seeing organization-creation in such contexts as a bricolage form of craft, a making do yet embodied and hands-on engagement, means we will offer what we argue is a much-needed affect-oriented, relational-processual conceptualization of social emancipatory entrepreneuring.

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