Dear all,
<br>
<br>This is an invitation to send your abstracts to our thematic session on The
<br>economization of nature at the next Nordic STS Conference.
<br>
<br>The deadline for submission is the 18th of January, 2019
<br>
<br>Nordic STS Conference
<br>13 - 14 June 2019, Tampere University, Finland
<br>https://events.uta.fi/nordicsts2019/session-the-economization-of-nature/
<br>
<br>Session organisers:
<br>
<br>Brunet Lucas1 (*lucas.brunet@staff.uta.fi *),
<br>Nylén Erkki-Jussi1(*erkki-jussi.nylen@staff.uta.fi
<br>*), Nygren V. Nina1 (*nina.nygren@uta.fi
<br>*)
<br>
<br>1University of Tampere, Tampere University School of Management, Finland.
<br>
<br>With the development of new political tools such as ecosystem services
<br>valuation or biodiversity offsetting, turning natures beings and dynamics
<br>into the language of economics has been promoted as a promising strategy
<br>for their conservation. This has been captured by the STS concept of
<br>economization which designates the process through which all kinds of
<br>objects, practices, institutions and behaviors are qualified as economic.
<br>The economization of nature has been supported as a strategy to communicate
<br>about the value of nature and better integrate it into decision-making. It
<br>has been presented as a new solution enabling to combine economic
<br>development and nature conservation, and reconcile humans and nature. In
<br>this session, we invite contributions from various disciplines and
<br>approaches describing how the process of economization of nature has been
<br>conducted and what it has performed. Our focus on economization is broad:
<br>accounting, valuation studies, exploitation and reuse of natural resources,
<br>banking and so on. We are particularly interested in the following
<br>questions, but we also welcome other contributions related to the theme:
<br>
<br>- How has the process of economization of nature become a solution for
<br>various issues? Where does it come from and what is the novelty (or not) of
<br>the process?
<br>
<br>- How does it work in different sites and cases? What knowledge has been
<br>produced for that purpose? What are the material and affective basis of the
<br>process?
<br>
<br>- How has it transformed the practices, discourses and subjectivities of a
<br>diversity of actors? What contradictions, tensions, ambiguities and
<br>assumptions does it involve?
<br>
<br>- How has it changed the way of governing nature? What kind of institutions
<br>and political processes has been implemented in response to it? Has it
<br>proposed a relevant solution for nature conservation?
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