Bioeconomies

Life, Technology, and Capital in the 21st Century

Vincenzo Pavone, Joanna Goven, Vincenzo Pavone, Joanna Goven

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319556505
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319556512
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Editors and Contributors
• Abbreviations
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Part I Promissory and Performative: Remaking Institutions for the Bioeconomy
• Chapter 2 The “Entrepreneurial State” and the Leveraging of Life in the Field of Regenerative Medicine
• Chapter 3 Technologies of Governance: Science, State and Citizen in Visions of the Bioeconomy
• Chapter 4 “Having a Structuring Effect on Europe”: The Innovative Medicines Initiative and the Construction of the European Health Bioeconomy
• Part II Making Value and Remaking Research in the Bioeconomies
• Chapter 5 The Underworlds Project and the “Collective Microbiome”: Mining Biovalue from Sewage
• Chapter 6 Bio-Identification, Value Creation and the Reproductive Bioeconomy: Insights from the Reprogenetics Sector in Spain
• Chapter 7 Making Value(s) Through Social Contracts for Biomedical Population Research
• Part III Bioeconomies as Sites of Power and Struggle
• Chapter 8 Data-Sharing Politics and the Logics of Competition in Biobanking
• Chapter 9 Reproducing the Border: Kinship Legalities in the Bioeconomy
• Chapter 10 Embedded Promissory Futures: The Rise of Networked Agribusiness in Argentina’s Bioeconomy
• Part IV Capitalizing on Altruism: Donation, Care, and Unequal Relations in Global Bioeconomies
• Chapter 11 Egg Donation in the Making: Gender, Selection and (In)Visibilities in the Spanish Bioeconomy of Reproduction
• Chapter 12 Thinking (Bioeconomies) Through Care: Patients’ Engagement with the Bioeconomies of Parenting
• Chapter 13 Who Is My Donor? A New Bioeconomy of Blood and Its Changing Ontology
• Chapter 14 Conclusion
• Index