Drawing on observations at the 2017 Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) – a global conference held in Christchurch, New Zealand – this paper examines the significance of localised event spaces in shaping economic subjects and, by extension, economic sectors. Conferences such as the SEWF are sites and moments that provide access to new knowledge, foster collective action and shape the subjectivities of economic actors. We describe how the SEWF cultivated sympathetic affective responses towards social enterprise and the subject position of the social entrepreneur, and demonstrate how the local specificities of Christchurch, as a place, were key to the cultivation of social-entrepreneurial subjectivity at the SEWF.

借鉴在 2017 年社会企业世界论坛 (SEWF)——在新西兰基督城举行的全球会议——的观察结果——本文研究了本地化活动空间在塑造经济主体以及进而塑造经济部门方面的重要性。SEWF 等会议是提供获取新知识、促进集体行动和塑造经济参与者主体性的场所和时刻。我们描述了 SEWF 如何培养对社会企业和社会企业家的主体地位的同情情感反应，并展示基督城作为一个地方的地方特性如何是 SEWF 培养社会企业家主体性的关键。