SOC 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Neoliberalism, Financialization, Ecosystem Services
5 Nov 2020
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Soc 3105 (fall 2020): global grabs (land, water, big. Grabbing nature: green grabbing builds on well-known histories of colonial & post- colonial resource alienation in the name of enviro. Had fewer interested parties (mainly the state/colonial power: today there are many more players implicated in the capitalist networks, part of the movement to neoliberalism of enviro arenas of governance, privatization & commodification of nature. Role of science-policy interface in green grabbing: most green markets = born out of science-policy interface, science-policy interface (e. g. the millennium ecosystem. Sustainable use" or conservation" is often used to validate the pricing of nature. 4 mechanisms of green grabbing" by fairhead et al. 2: some countries = required by imf (for instance) for structural adjustments, markets function on speculatory promise of science. In recent yrs, isn"t just nature grabbing, but also data grabbing: from agri to health care to social media, data grabbing practices = popular among tech companies.
