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Dear colleagues,



As part of the ERC project "Enacting the Good Economy: Biocapitalization and

the Little Tools of

Valuation", we are organising a

workshop at the University of Oslo on the theme "Good economics in the good

economy?". The workshop will take place at Tyen Manor House on October 14-15.

It will consist in public keynotes on October 14 followed by closed workshop

sessions.



In recent years, there has been a growing interest, both in scholarship and in

policy, towards the so-called "bioeconomy": an upcoming economy that would

rely on biological resources, knowledge and technologies to fuel sustained and

sustainable growth. The notion of a bioeconomy carries the ambition of

transforming of the economy to enable it to attend to the living and to make

value out it. It is also an economy that promises to be good and to do good,

and as such to redefine its values. In that sense, the rise of the bioeconomy

has implications for economic life but also for how political action is

conceived, making it necessary to open it up, study how it is enacted in

practice and consider the tensions that might arise when the bioeconomy is set

in motion.

In this workshop, we would like to look into the knowledge production and

valuation practices that (tentatively) make up the bioeconomy as project by

asking what the economics of the bioeconomy are. What do the promises of a

"good economy" imply for economics as a discipline, as an expertise, as a set

of practices and devices? To what extent - and how - does economics take part

in defining and shaping the good economy?

Studies in the STS and performativity tradition have explored the making of

economic knowledge and highlighted its contribution to the constitution of

"the economy" as a measurable and governable entity. Similarly, this workshop

will investigate how economics are enrolled in, or challenged by, the

bioeconomy as a new version of the economy. How do bioeconomy strategies or

projects - be they in business models or governmental policy - work with,

from, or against economic expertise? And which kinds of economic expertise?

How are economics applied to the bioeconomy, and what does this mean for

economists? We would like to consider these questions looking both into how

economic knowledge is produced and into how it is applied.



Open Programme, 14 Oct. 09.00-15.00:

The Good Economy: Welcome and Introduction by Kristin Asdal (TIK Centre for

Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo), PI of the ERC Project

"Enacting the Good Economy: Biocapitalization and the Little Tools of

Valuation"

"Finance as a response to global environmental crises?" by Eve Chiapello

(Centre d'Etude des Mouvement Sociaux-Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences

Sociales), author with Luc Boltanski of The New Spirit of Capitalism:

"Capitalization and Transition" by Andrew Barry (University College London),

author of Political Machines: Governing a technological society and Material

Politics: Disputes along the pipeline



To attend the open programme, please register by email to

beatrice.cointe@tik.uio.no



Paper proposals for participation in the workshop sessions are welcome until

October 2nd. Send abstracts or drafts to

kristin.asdal@tik.uio.no and

beatrice.cointe@tik.uio.no.



With kind regards,

Batrice Cointe



Postdoc - ERC project Enacting the good economy: Biocapitalization and the

little tools of

valuation 

TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture

University of Olso

P.O. Box 1108 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway

+47-22 841 639

+336 69 35 30 61



https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/beatrice-cointe

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