Bioeconomies

This book explores the promissory discourses and practices associated with the bioeconomy, focusing especially on the transformation of institutions; the creation, appropriation, and distribution of value; the struggle over resources, power, and meaning; and the role of altruism, kinship, and care practices. Governments and science enthusiasts worldwide are embracing the bioeconomy, championing it as the key to health, wealth, and sustainability, while citing it as justification to transform research and regulatory institutions, health and agricultural practices, ethics of privacy and ownership, and conceptions of self and kin. Drawing together studies from Asia, Australia, the Americas, and Europe, this volume encompasses subjects as diverse as regenerative medicine, population health research, agricultural finance, biobanking, assisted reproduction, immigration, breastfeeding, self-help groups, GM fish, and mining sewage.

Brings together leading senior and up-and-coming academics researching bioeconomics Presents timely global and interdisciplinary research on bioeconomies, biotechnology and biocapital Appeals to researchers in science and technology studies, medical sociology/sociology of health and illness, science and innovation policy, and political economy, as well as policymakers. Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Vincenzo Pavone is Tenured Researcher at the Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He leads a research group on the global bioeconomy studying the relationship between science, technology and neoliberal politics. He has been PI of several national and international research projects on reproductive and regenerative medicine, transgenics and surveillance-oriented security technologies.
Joanna Goven is Director of Kukupa Research, which she founded after many years as an academic. In recent years she has focused on the political economy of science and on facilitating transdisciplinary research. She has published in the areas of gender politics, public engagement with science, transdisciplinarity, and the bioeconomy.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2.the 'Entrepreneurial State' and the Leveraging of Life in the Field of Regenerative Medicine.- 3.Technologies of Governance: Science, State and Citizen in Visions of the Bioeconomy.- 4. "Having a Structuring Effect on Europe". The Innovative Medicines Initiative and the Construction of the European Health Bioeconomy.- 5. The Underworlds Project and The "Collective Microbiome": Mining Biovalue from Sewage.- 6. Bio-Identification, Value Creation and the Reproductive Bioeconomy. Insights from the Reprogenetics Sector in Spain.- 7. Making Value(s) through Social Contracts for Biomedical Population Research.- 8. Data-Sharing Politics and the Logics of Competition in Biobanking.- 9. Reproducing the Border: Kinship Legalities in the Bioeconomy.- 10. Embedded Promissory Futures: The Rise of Networked Agribusiness in Argentina's Bioeconomy.- 11. Egg Donation in the Making: Gender, Selection and (in)Visibilities in the Spanish Bioeconomy of Reproduction.- 12. Thinking (Bioeconomies) through Care: Patients' Engagement with the Bioeconomies of Parenting.- 13. Who Is My Donor? A New Bioeconomy of Blood and Its Changing Ontology.- 14. Conclusion.