Att leva och sälja sin dröm

Livsstilsföretagaren mellan familjeliv, marknadoch politisk retorik

Författare

  • Erika Andersson Cederholm Institutionen för service management och tjänstevetenskap, Lunds universitet
  • Carina Sjöholm Institutionen för service management och tjänstevetenskap, Lunds universitet

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37062/sf.51.18312

Nyckelord:

Lifestyle entrepreneur, rural tourism, valuation, self-realization, life dream

Abstract

Living and selling a dream: Lifestyle entrepreneurship in the intersection between family, market and political rhetoric

The article focuses on lifestyle entrepreneurship, characterised by a balancing work between personal lifestyle motives and economic motives. It builds on a qualitative study of business owners who have realized a life dream of starting a countryside business in the tourism and hospitality industry in Sweden. Through the notion of ”balancing work”, the analysis focuses on the tension between a personal life sphere and a market. In particular, the analysis highlights how the notion of ”the life dream” emerges as a narrative practice of self-realization, simultaneously as it is offered as an experience product. The analysis demonstrates how the entrepreneurs balance between personal stories of togetherness and marketing practices, between images of right and wrong commodification, and between constraining working conditions and a popular image of the successful entrepreneur, reinforced by a political discourse on rural entrepreneurship. It is concluded that balancing work between personal identities and economic practices is a practice of valuation, offering new insights into working conditions and markets situated in the intersection between markets and personal life spheres.

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Publicerad

2014-04-01

Referera så här

Andersson Cederholm, Erika, och Carina Sjöholm. 2014. ”Att Leva Och sälja Sin dröm: Livsstilsföretagaren Mellan Familjeliv, Marknadoch Politisk Retorik”. Sociologisk Forskning 51 (2):137-56. https://doi.org/10.37062/sf.51.18312.

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