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