Who owns NATURE? Conceptual appropriation in discourses on climate and biotechnologies

IF 2.2 2区哲学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Values Pub Date : 2023-12-08 DOI:10.1177/09632719231196535

Jeroen K.G. Hopster, Alessio Gerola, Ben Hofbauer, Guido Löhr, Julia Rijssenbeek, Paulan Korenhof

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Abstract

Emerging technologies can have profound conceptual implications. Their emergence frequently calls for the articulation of new concepts, or for modifications and novel applications of concepts that are already entrenched in communication and thought. In this paper, we introduce the notion of “conceptual appropriation” to capture the dynamics between concepts and emerging technologies. By conceptual appropriation, we mean the novel application of a value-laden concept to lay a contestable claim on an underdetermined phenomenon. We illustrate the dynamics of conceptual appropriation by analyzing the concept NATURE and its uptake in three discourses of emerging technology: cellular agriculture, solar geo-engineering, and biomimicry. We argue that NATURE and its cognate NATURALNESS are strongly valanced concepts upon which different stakeholders lay a claim. In doing so, stakeholders advance distinct conceptions of nature, typically to suit their own interests. Our case-studies illustrate how in discourses on emerging technology, the application of value-concepts is entangled with ideological stakes and power dynamics.

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谁拥有大自然？气候和生物技术论述中的概念挪用

新兴技术可能具有深刻的概念含义。它们的出现经常要求阐明新概念，或者修改和新颖地应用已经在交流和思想中根深蒂固的概念。在本文中，我们引入了“概念挪用”的概念来捕捉概念和新兴技术之间的动态关系。通过概念挪用，我们指的是对一个充满价值的概念的新颖应用，以对一个未确定的现象提出有争议的主张。我们通过分析自然概念及其在新兴技术的三个话语中的吸收来说明概念挪用的动态:细胞农业、太阳能地球工程和仿生学。我们认为，自然和它的同源自然是强烈的价值概念，不同的利益相关者提出索赔。在这样做的过程中，利益相关者提出了不同的自然概念，通常是为了满足自己的利益。我们的案例研究表明，在新兴技术的话语中，价值概念的应用如何与意识形态利益和权力动态纠缠在一起。

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Environmental Values Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Environmental Values is an international peer-reviewed journal that brings together contributions from philosophy, economics, politics, sociology, geography, anthropology, ecology and other disciplines, which relate to the present and future environment of human beings and other species. In doing so we aim to clarify the relationship between practical policy issues and more fundamental underlying principles or assumptions.