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.
對於海洋經濟化的探索，透過小的改變來實現自然的重大轉變。
海洋正經歷一場持續的轉型，旨在創造新的經濟機會和繁榮。在《自然造就的經濟》中，Kristin Asdal 和 Tone Huse 探討了海洋如何被利用成為資本投資和創新的空間，以及生物自然如何被納入經濟中，儘管自然本身也在抵抗、適應或改變經濟。作者們的創新方法論和概念性方法通過聚焦於驚人且眾多的「小工具」——例如地圖和政策文件、品質巡查以及增強物種生物傾向的飲食要求——來檢視經濟，這些工具不僅評價、指導、重新排序、實現我們的目標，有時也未能達成，但最終卻累積成為巨大的變化。
在《自然造就的經濟》中，Asdal 和 Huse 追蹤一種物種——大西洋鱈魚，並探討它如何受到不同版本的經濟化影響。以這種物種為出發點，他們提供了對創新經濟、市場架構、價格形成等的全新分析，揭示了海洋如何成為強烈經濟剝削的空間。通過他們的分析，作者們發展出一種獨特的理論方法和概念詞彙，用於研究自然與經濟的關係。
《自然造就的經濟》對於STS（科學技術研究）和市場社會研究的廣泛領域，以及對人類世、環境和人類與動物關係的研究，都是一項重要的貢獻。
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.
Kristin Asdal 是奧斯陸大學的科學技術研究教授。她是《Doing Document Analysis: A Practice-Oriented Method》的共同作者，以及《Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: The More-Than-Human Condition》的共同編輯。
Tone Huse 是挪威北極大學的考古學、歷史、宗教研究和神學副教授。她是《Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City: On Displacement, Ethnic Privileging and the Right to Stay Put》的作者。
