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Social entrepreneurship is commonly (re)presented as the portent of a new era in which entrepreneurship is no longer reduced to its ‘economic function’ but is now seen as a ‘pathway for social change’ (Luke and Chu, 2013). This is an incisive assessment, one that we think deserves critical scrutiny. Thus, to all those who have wanted to embark on the path of social entrepreneurship, or who are simply curious to hear more about the buzz surrounding social entrepreneurship (Mauksch, 2014), we say be aware: we need critique, and we need it now! This is not, we argue, to divert attention away from the scientific project of social entrepreneurship research (Nicholls, 2010), and especially not to discredit social entrepreneurship tout court. Rather, the need and, indeed, the urgency of critique are grounded in the realization that a variety of things are wrong with social entrepreneurship: ‘wrong’ in both an epistemological sense (for example detached research practices and methodologies which fail to engage with the vagaries of everyday life and the moral and political predicaments of social entrepreneurship) and an ontological sense (for example misguided assumptions about the ‘essence’ of social entrepreneurship, such as atomism). This book – Social Entrepreneurship: An Affirmative Critique – presents a range of critical approaches that we hope will interrogate, irritate and reimagine social entrepreneurship. While most of us already have our own understanding of ‘critique’ (Butler, 2001), it is important to note that this book does not address critique as something fixed or dogmatic (that is, critique as a narrow doctrine authoritatively defined by a particular group such as orthodox ‘Marxists’ or ‘Trotskyists’). Instead of trying to set the universal standards for critique qua judgment, the chapters assembled in this book suggest various forms of critique to slow down any easy presumption about social entrepreneurship’s essentially transformational

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