Value, (use) values, and the ecologies of capital: On social form, meaning, and the contested production of nature.

Andueza, Luis

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“…The problem is also evident in recent discussions of value as a central theoretical problem in geographical critiques of capitalist natures (Andueza, 2020;Huber, 2018;Kenney-Lazar and Kay, 2017;Robertson and Wainwright, 2013). For instance, Huber (2017: 47) argues that Marx's theory of value helps us to understand both the devaluation of nature under capitalism and the 'parts of nature' that capital does value.…”

Section: Ontologies and Genealogies Of Infrastructural Naturementioning

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Infrastructural nature

Nelson

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2021

Progress in Human Geography

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The assertion that ‘ecosystems are infrastructure’ is now common in conservation science and ecosystem management. This article interrogates this infrastructural ontology, which we argue underpins diverse practices of conservation investment and ecosystem management focused on the strategic management of ecosystem functions to sustain and secure human life. We trace the genealogies and geographies of infrastructural nature as an ontology and paradigm of investment that coexists (sometimes in tension) with extractivist commodity regimes. We draw links between literatures on the political economy of ecosystem services and infrastructure and highlight three themes that hold promise for future research: labor, territory, and finance.

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Section: Ontologies and Genealogies Of Infrastructural Naturementioning

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Infrastructural nature

Nelson

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2021

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Integrally connected to the spatial and temporal contradictions of capitalism are the aspects of value (Andueza, 2021; Arboleda, 2020). Under capitalism, labor, commodity production, and commodity exchange are mediated through value and its expansion (Huber, 2017: 41).…”

Section: Contradictions and Fixes In Forestry And The Bioeconomymentioning

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The bioeconomy, carbon sinks, and depoliticization in Finnish forest politics

Kellokumpu

2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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The forest bioeconomy in Finland has emerged as a project that seeks to resolve emergent contradictions in the capitalist ecological regime and to reconfigure spatial, temporal, and economic relations. The bioeconomy rose to public consciousness during the 2010s, especially after its adoption as one of the spearhead projects of the 2015–2019 center-right coalition government. The forest industry's bioeconomic plans are also an attempt to hegemonize and depoliticize a particular political view of forests in the era of climate change. In this paper, the politics of the bioeconomy and carbon sinks are scrutinized in the context of the 2019 parliamentary election season, during which forest use was a central political issue due to investments in new biorefineries. A data set of 80 newspaper articles is analyzed through critical discourse analysis. The analysis identifies three key discursive frames that legitimize the political imaginary of the bioeconomy: 1) rural reinvigoration and the defense of the nation's peripheries through spatial populism; 2) a view of forests as high-throughput carbon conveyors that conform to the temporalities of capital; 3) the establishment of the bioeconomy as a high-value accumulation regime that can resolve the profitability crisis of the paper and pulp production model.

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“…Such notions of value, however, are contested (Andueza, 2020; Victor, 2020). The monetary value of ecosystems is considered reductive (Victor, 2020, p6): ‘Describing nature as capital implies that nature has value … only to provide goods and services to humans’.…”

Section: Debates and Dilemmas In Urban Blue‐green Spacesmentioning

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“…Such an understanding calls for ethical, equitable and practical responses to situated challenges of whose health matters (including the health of the more‐than‐human world). These issues generate contested notions of value and the ‘production of nature’ (Andueza, 2020; Kenter et al., 2015).…”

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Wellbeing and blue‐green space in post‐pandemic cities: Drivers, debates and departures

Dobson

2021

Geography Compass

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Covid‐19 has focused attention on the importance of urban green and blue spaces (such as parks and watercourses) for human wellbeing. Less attention has been devoted to how those spaces might contribute to a wider rethinking of relations between humans and the more‐than‐human world in post‐pandemic cities. This article outlines how Covid‐19 opens up a broader debate about the future of urban green spaces, especially in the global North, but highlights the limitations of this debate. It signposts emerging directions in inquiry, drawing on current concerns in health geographies and the political ecology of health. These include recognition of the agency and worth of the more‐than‐human world; the need to understand and value wellbeing in terms of relationships between places, nature and people; and the importance of long‐term thinking in practical decision‐making and planning. These shifts can be grounded in everyday practice by rethinking the role of urban blue‐green space, pointing to a research agenda in which ordinary spaces and practices are understood as contributing to assemblages of wellbeing across whole urban areas, rooted in increased connection between humans and the more‐than‐human world.

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Value, (use) values, and the ecologies of capital: On social form, meaning, and the contested production of nature.

Cited by 16 publications

References 53 publications

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The bioeconomy, carbon sinks, and depoliticization in Finnish forest politics

Wellbeing and blue‐green space in post‐pandemic cities: Drivers, debates and departures

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