ABSTRACT

This chapter revisits theoretical ideas on the barefoot entrepreneurs in order to continue to challenge and critically question entrepreneurial capitalism. Barefoot economics is at the centre of barefoot community-based entrepreneuring and the central idea in original paper. Distribution, solidarity and collaboration are central for a barefoot community-based entrepreneurship. Fanon's concept of transformative humanism explains how people creatively organise together to change their circumstances for the ultimate benefit of their communities. 'organsparkZ' is a concept that Imas and Weston decapitalise on purpose to emphasise the issue of people living in precarity, and highlight the kind of creativity employed by disenfranchised communities. The fabrica recuperada movement created by unemployed workers following the financial crisis in Argentina exemplifies this barefoot community-based alternative. With widespread unemployment, people engaged creatively in entrepreneurial resistance, and found alternative ways of organising. As the capitalist economic system collapsed, formal work opportunities became scarce.