(Re)Making and Regulating Life and Livelihoods Across Borders: Transnational Bioeconomy, Law, and Governance

Biotechnological industry, researchers, and governments have entered a new constellation, regime, and accelerated phase, called the Bioeconomy. This agenda – which exists in the form of policy, funding programs, white papers, etc. – reimagines how we live, how we live together with other kinds of life, and, directly, reimagines these other kinds of life at the molar and molecular level. In other words: all kinds of livelihoods in their social, economic, and ethical relations are put in motion. This agenda is, geopolitically, not restricted to Global North nor contained by any national or international jurisdiction and governance.

This conference aims to bring together a group of scholars, who are willing to create a transdisciplinary conversation on the contemporary technoscience-economic agenda that is slowly becoming one of the most social and ecological transformations agendas on a global scale. This « Bioeconomy as Anthropocene 2.0 », unlike climate change (which the most technoptimistic proponents of the Bioeconomy promise to mitigate or even solve), is begun to serve intentionally as an intervention into ecosystems with the goal of changing how we live: from agriculture to biofuels, from medicine to industrial production via microbial factories. The question how this transition is and even can be regulated; e.g. through the creation of transnational law; is slowly but surely revealing itself to be one of the crucial socio-political issues of our time.

Organised by Alexander I. Stingl, Research Associate and Fellow Collège d’études mondiales, FMSH, Independent Scholarship Fellow, Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF), Managing editor for the book series “Decolonial Options for the Social Sciences” (Lexington/Rowman) and Gilles Lhuilier, Professeur de droit ENS Rennes, Head of Global Legal Studies Network, FMSH, President of the International Society for Extractive Law and Practices, Campus de La Transition.

Ce contenu a été mis à jour le 26 novembre 2018 à 16 h 03 min.