The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes

Kristin Asdal and Tone Huse

to discuss their book

Nature-Made Economy

Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean

This session will be an opportunity to discuss the just-published book Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean with its authors. The discussion will be introduced by Clément Foutrel, (CSI) and Baptiste Parent (CIRED).

“Nature-Made Economy” tells the story about the great economization of the ocean through the little tools and valuations that make this happen. By following the famous codfish around, across policy documents, at sites where prices are set, qualities are valued, and cod habits are sought disciplined, it traces how nature acts upon economy and vice versa. Throughout this, the book shows how different “versions of economization” materialize, are grown and cared for, but also fail, sometimes quite spectacularly.

Kristin Asdal is Professor of STS at the TIK Centre for Technology, University of Oslo. She is the coauthor, with Hilde Reinertsen, of Doing Document Analysis: A Practice-Oriented Method, and coeditor of Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: The More-Than-Human Condition, Sage, 2022.

Tone Huse is Associate Professor of STS in the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology at UiT 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, Routledge, 2016.

Kristin Asdal and Tone Huse, Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean,The MIT Press, 2023.

Information and registration

Date: Tuesday, December 12, 11am-1pm

Venue: Mines Paris-PSL, 60 boulevard Saint Michel, 75006 Paris, room L106

The session will also be streamed by videoconference. The link will be sent upon registration just before the seminar.

The seminar is open to all. Please register here to participate in this session.

Contact: Béatrice Cointe, Kewan Mertens, Alexandre Violle or Liliana Doganova

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Photo sources:  Kristin Asdal, TIK Centre for Technology, University of Oslo. Tone Huse (@ToneHu) / X