Pacifying seaweed: imagining docile objects for novel blue bioeconomies

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dc.contributor.authorUreta, Sebastian
dc.contributor.authorFlores, Patricio
dc.contributor.authorBarrena, Jose
dc.contributor.authorMiranda, Paula
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T16:12:30Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T16:12:30Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractIn recent years the blue bioeconomy has been presented as a way for marine-based industries to break with traditional models of relentless resource extraction and extensive damage on marine ecosystems. Centering in innovation and biotechnological enhancement, the concept promises a future that makes compatible continual economic growth with environmental sustainability. In practice, however, the blue bioeconomy still mostly an object of imagination than a reality. In this paper we analyze a leading cause for such lack of effectiveness: the reductionistic ways in which most blue bioeconomy proposals engage with the agencies of marine entities. Adopting an analytical frame from science and technology studies (STS), we understand the multiple strategies oriented to produce neat and simple versions of marine beings as forms of "pacification" that enable the transformation of these beings in commodities that could be easily traded in global markets, at the expense of their sociobiological complexity. To explore the ways in which pacification works, the paper analyzes current attempts at renovating the seaweed industry in Chile. Especially we analyze two policy proposals - one focused on turning seaweed into the basis of a blue carbon economy and the other centered on the potential of seaweed as high-end novel foods for export - showing how they produce a highly pacified versions of seaweed that bear little resemblance with the complex beings populating Chilean seas. Pacified seaweed comes handy for market-oriented policy proposals but tend to fare quite poorly beyond them.
dc.description.funderFONDECYT grant from Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID) Chile
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s40152-024-00380-2
dc.identifier.eissn2212-9790
dc.identifier.issn1872-7859
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-024-00380-2
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/90337
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:001274917800001
dc.issue.numero3
dc.language.isoen
dc.revistaMaritime studies
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectBlue bioeconomy
dc.subjectPacification
dc.subjectSeaweed
dc.subjectBlue carbon
dc.subjectNovel food
dc.subjectChile
dc.subject.ods14 Life Below Water
dc.subject.ods15 Life on Land
dc.subject.ods13 Climate Action
dc.subject.odspa14 Vida submarina
dc.subject.odspa15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
dc.subject.odspa13 Acción por el clima
dc.titlePacifying seaweed: imagining docile objects for novel blue bioeconomies
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen23
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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