Nature-Made Economy

Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean

Kristin Asdal, Tone Huse

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MIT Press
17 October 2023

Environmental economics; Fisheries & related industries; Wildlife: aquatic creatures

"An exploration of the economization of the ocean through the small modifications that enable great transformations of nature.

An exploration of the economization of the ocean through the small modifications that enable great transformations of nature.

The ocean is the site of an ongoing transformation that is aimed at creating new economic opportunities and prosperity. In Nature-Made Economy, Kristin Asdal and Tone Huse explore how the ocean has been harnessed to become a space of capital investment and innovation, and how living nature is wrested into the economy even as nature, in turn, resists, adapts to, or changes the economy. The authors' innovative methodological and conceptual approaches examine the economy by focusing on surprising and numerous ""little tools""-such as maps and policy documents, quality patrols, and dietary requirements for the enhancement of species' biological propensities-that value, direct, reorder, accomplish, and sometimes fail to serve our ends, but also add up to great change.

Throughout Nature-Made Economy, Asdal and Huse follow one species, the Atlantic cod, and explore how it is subjected to different versions of economization. Taking this species as a point of departure, they then provide novel analyses of the innovation economy, the architecture of markets, the settling of prices, and more, revealing how the ocean is rendered a space of intense economic exploitation. Through their analysis, the authors develop a distinct theoretical approach and conceptual vocabulary for studying nature-economy relations.

Nature-Made Economy is a significant contribution to the broad field of STS and social studies of markets, as well as to studies of the Anthropocene, the environment, and human-animal relations."

By: Kristin Asdal, Tone Huse
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780262545525
ISBN 10: 0262545527
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 17 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kristin Asdal is Professor of STS at the University of Oslo. She is the coauthor of Doing Document Analysis- A Practice-Oriented Method and coeditor of Humans, Animals and Biopolitics- The More-Than-Human Condition. Tone Huse is Associate Professor of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology at the Arctic University of Norway. She is the author of Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City- On Displacement, Ethnic Privileging and the Right to Stay Put.