Nature-Made Economy by Kristin Asdal - ISBN: 9780262545525
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Ocean’s transformation: Small tools, big economy, nature adapts and resists.

Nature-Made Economy

Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean

  • Paperback

    280 pages

  • Release Date

    14 November 2023

Summary

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 focu…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262545525
ISBN-10:0262545527
Author:Kristin Asdal, Tone Huse
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:280
Release Date:14 November 2023
Weight:340g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 18mm
About The Author

Kristin Asdal

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.

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