Apologies for cross-postings.
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<br>Dear colleagues,
<br>
<br>As part of the ERC project "Enacting the Good Economy: Biocapitalization and
<br>the Little Tools of
<br>Valuation", we are organising a
<br>workshop at the University of Oslo on the theme "Good economics in the good
<br>economy?". The workshop will take place at Tyen Manor House on October 14-15.
<br>It will consist in public keynotes on October 14 followed by closed workshop
<br>sessions.
<br>
<br>In recent years, there has been a growing interest, both in scholarship and in
<br>policy, towards the so-called "bioeconomy": an upcoming economy that would
<br>rely on biological resources, knowledge and technologies to fuel sustained and
<br>sustainable growth. The notion of a bioeconomy carries the ambition of
<br>transforming of the economy to enable it to attend to the living and to make
<br>value out it. It is also an economy that promises to be good and to do good,
<br>and as such to redefine its values. In that sense, the rise of the bioeconomy
<br>has implications for economic life but also for how political action is
<br>conceived, making it necessary to open it up, study how it is enacted in
<br>practice and consider the tensions that might arise when the bioeconomy is set
<br>in motion.
<br>In this workshop, we would like to look into the knowledge production and
<br>valuation practices that (tentatively) make up the bioeconomy as project by
<br>asking what the economics of the bioeconomy are. What do the promises of a
<br>"good economy" imply for economics as a discipline, as an expertise, as a set
<br>of practices and devices? To what extent - and how - does economics take part
<br>in defining and shaping the good economy?
<br>Studies in the STS and performativity tradition have explored the making of
<br>economic knowledge and highlighted its contribution to the constitution of
<br>"the economy" as a measurable and governable entity. Similarly, this workshop
<br>will investigate how economics are enrolled in, or challenged by, the
<br>bioeconomy as a new version of the economy. How do bioeconomy strategies or
<br>projects - be they in business models or governmental policy - work with,
<br>from, or against economic expertise? And which kinds of economic expertise?
<br>How are economics applied to the bioeconomy, and what does this mean for
<br>economists? We would like to consider these questions looking both into how
<br>economic knowledge is produced and into how it is applied.
<br>
<br>Open Programme, 14 Oct. 09.00-15.00:
<br>The Good Economy: Welcome and Introduction by Kristin Asdal (TIK Centre for
<br>Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo), PI of the ERC Project
<br>"Enacting the Good Economy: Biocapitalization and the Little Tools of
<br>Valuation"
<br>"Finance as a response to global environmental crises?" by Eve Chiapello
<br>(Centre d'Etude des Mouvement Sociaux-Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
<br>Sociales), author with Luc Boltanski of The New Spirit of Capitalism:
<br>"Capitalization and Transition" by Andrew Barry (University College London),
<br>author of Political Machines: Governing a technological society and Material
<br>Politics: Disputes along the pipeline
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<br>To attend the open programme, please register by email to
<br>beatrice.cointe@tik.uio.no
<br>
<br>Paper proposals for participation in the workshop sessions are welcome until
<br>October 2nd. Send abstracts or drafts to
<br>kristin.asdal@tik.uio.no and
<br>beatrice.cointe@tik.uio.no.
<br>
<br>With kind regards,
<br>Batrice Cointe
<br>
<br>Postdoc - ERC project Enacting the good economy: Biocapitalization and the
<br>little tools of
<br>valuation
<br>TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture
<br>University of Olso
<br>P.O. Box 1108 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway
<br>+47-22 841 639
<br>+336 69 35 30 61
<br>
<br>https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/beatrice-cointe
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