Descrizione del progetto
Studio degli «strumentini» per la biocapitalizzazione
Da dove verrà il nostro cibo e che cosa guiderà le nostre economie in futuro? La risposta potrebbe risiedere in parte nella rivoluzione blu, in cui il pesce viene allevato anziché pescato. Sebbene sia vista come una potenziale soluzione alle nostre future esigenze alimentari ed economiche, si tratta di una trasformazione complessa. In questo contesto, il progetto LITTLE TOOLS, finanziato dal Consiglio europeo della ricerca, intende far luce sul processo di biocapitalizzazione e su come valori quali la sostenibilità e il benessere degli animali possano essere messi in atto mediante entità materiali-semiotiche note come «strumentini» (little tools). Il progetto si concentrerà su molteplici siti di biocapitalizzazione, fra cui la scienza, il mercato, la politica e le istituzioni di finanziamento. Utilizzando metodi interdisciplinari, questo progetto si propone di fornire nuove conoscenze empiriche.
Obiettivo
What shall we live off in the future? Where will our food come from, and what will form the basis for our economies? A so-called “blue revolution”, where fish become farmed rather than caught, is increasingly presented as an answer to the above questions. This transformation of the economy exemplifies ongoing efforts to produce new forms of capital out of the ordering and reordering of life. These processes are intimately related to the expanding life sciences, the bioeconomy and what is sometimes called new forms of biocapital.
But how do such large transformations take place in actual practice, and by which means? This project argues that if we are to understand such major transformations we need to study “little tools”, that is, material-semiotic entities that carefully modify and work upon bodies, markets and science.
Emerging bioeconomies are expected not only to produce economic value but also to enact values in other ways that contribute to what this project refers to as “the good economy”. Such values include enabling sustainable fisheries, secure animal welfare or sustainable growth.
The main hypothesis of the current project is that the enactment of the good economy can be studied by valuation practices performed by material-semiotic little tools. The project will explore this hypothesis at multiple sites for biocapitalization: science, the market, policy and funding institutions. This project will focus on how these interact and encounter one another. The aim is twofold: first, to provide new empirical insights about how biocapitalization processes are enacted in practice and at strategic sites, using cross-disciplinary methods from actor-network theory, the humanities and economic sociology; second to contribute analytically and methodologically to the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) by drawing on resources from economic sociology and the humanities in order to provide an analytical framework for comprehending biocapitalization practices.
Campo scientifico
- social sciencesmedia and communicationsjournalism
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsrevolutions
- social sciencessociologyanthropologyscience and technology studies
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsbioeconomy
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
ERC-STG - Starting GrantIstituzione ospitante
0313 Oslo
Norvegia