Pacifying seaweed: imagining docile objects for novel blue bioeconomies

IF 2.2 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Sebastián Ureta, Patricio Flores, José Barrena, Paula Miranda
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In recent years the blue bioeconomy has been presented as a way for marine-based industries to break with traditional models of relentless resource extraction and extensive damage on marine ecosystems. Centering in innovation and biotechnological enhancement, the concept promises a future that makes compatible continual economic growth with environmental sustainability. In practice, however, the blue bioeconomy still mostly an object of imagination than a reality. In this paper we analyze a leading cause for such lack of effectiveness: the reductionistic ways in which most blue bioeconomy proposals engage with the agencies of marine entities. Adopting an analytical frame from science and technology studies (STS), we understand the multiple strategies oriented to produce neat and simple versions of marine beings as forms of “pacification” that enable the transformation of these beings in commodities that could be easily traded in global markets, at the expense of their sociobiological complexity. To explore the ways in which pacification works, the paper analyzes current attempts at renovating the seaweed industry in Chile. Especially we analyze two policy proposals – one focused on turning seaweed into the basis of a blue carbon economy and the other centered on the potential of seaweed as high-end novel foods for export – showing how they produce a highly pacified versions of seaweed that bear little resemblance with the complex beings populating Chilean seas. Pacified seaweed comes handy for market-oriented policy proposals but tend to fare quite poorly beyond them.

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安抚海藻:为新型蓝色生物经济想象温顺的对象
近年来,蓝色生物经济被认为是以海洋为基础的产业打破无情开采资源和广泛破坏海洋生态系统的传统模式的一种途径。这一概念以创新和生物技术提升为核心,承诺了一个经济持续增长与环境可持续发展相协调的未来。然而,在实践中,蓝色生物经济仍主要是一种想象,而非现实。在本文中,我们分析了缺乏有效性的一个主要原因:大多数蓝色生物经济提案与海洋实体机构打交道的简化方式。采用科技研究(STS)的分析框架,我们将旨在生产整齐、简单的海洋生物的多种策略理解为 "平和化 "的形式,这种形式能够将海洋生物转化为易于在全球市场上交易的商品,但却牺牲了其社会生物学的复杂性。为了探究 "安抚 "的作用方式,本文分析了智利目前对海藻产业进行改造的尝试。特别是我们分析了两项政策建议--一项侧重于将海藻转化为蓝碳经济的基础,另一项侧重于海藻作为高端新型出口食品的潜力--表明它们是如何生产出高度绥靖版的海藻的,这些海藻与智利海域中复杂的生物几乎没有相似之处。绥靖型海藻对于以市场为导向的政策建议很有用,但在政策建议之外往往表现不佳。
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Maritime Studies
Maritime Studies ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-
CiteScore
4.90
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11.80%
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37
期刊介绍: Maritime Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal on the social dimensions of coastal and marine issues throughout the world. The journal is a venue for theoretical and empirical research relevant to a wide range of academic social science disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, geography, history and political science. Space is especially given to develop academic concepts and debate. We invite original research papers, reviews and viewpoints and welcome proposals for special issues that make a distinctive contribution to contemporary discussion around maritime and coastal use, development and governance. The journal provides a rigorous but constructive review process and rapid publication, and is accessible to new researchers, including postgraduate students and early career academics.
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