The bioeconomy is a political project that focuses on the capitalist production and
and utilization of nature for the transition from fossil to bio-based economic and
modes of production. The research project BioMaterialities investigates in this
the transformation processes of the bioeconomy in production, reproduction and politics.
politics. One focus is on the valorization of nature through high technologies like
automation, digitalization and biotechnologies.
Many bioeconomy activities have a profound impact on the reproduction of nature.
nature, which can be seen, for example, in the environmental impacts of industrial agriculture or the
degraded soils due to forest monocultures. Bioeconomy strategies do
ecosystems, but also influence how people and households reproduce within a society.
people and households (can) reproduce within a society. This
reproductive side of the bioeconomy has received little attention in bioeconomy research.
focus. The workshop will therefore address bioeconomy transformations particularly with regard to the
the ecological and social dimensions of reproduction. On the one hand,
feminist perspectives on “green” bioeconomy projects with their
transformations and high technologies at the landscape level (e.g.
ecosystem services, agricultural land or forests) and at the molecular level (e.g.
Plant Breeding) are invited. On the other hand, we invite feminist perspectives on “red
bioeconomies” that involve high technologies and their impacts on bodies and
Health.
The workshop will bring together work and perspectives from feminist economics, the
feminist technoscience and feminist political ecology on the bioeconomy and also aims to support the networking of researchers in the field.
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