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- Hultman, Johan, et al.
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A Resourcification Manifesto: Understanding the Social Process of Resources Becoming Resources
- 2021
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In: Research Policy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0048-7333. ; 50:9
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In times of major global interconnectedness and environmental change, the pressure to identify, create, and exploit new resources is certain to intensify. Given that there are unavoidable trade-offs, conflicts, and arenas for violence involved when increasingly more material and immaterial things are turned into resources, we call for explicit research on the very process – a process that we label resourcification. The concept of resourcification shifts attention from essentialist queries about the nature of resources to a focus on the social processes through which things are turned into resources. In search of a better understanding of resources in the Anthropocene and, in particular, an understanding about the way resources emerge and are used, resourcification offers a new conceptual framework that allows for a systematic search for knowledge about the diversity of contexts, conditions, modes, and temporalities of resourcification. This Resourcification Manifesto offers a theoretical and empirical framework for a radical and disruptive approach to innovation, sustainability, and management studies and policies.
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- Corvellec, Hervé, et al.
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Resourcification : A Non-Essentialist Theory of Resources for Sustainable Development
- 2021
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In: Sustainable Development. - 0968-0802. ; 29:6, s. 1249-1256
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Overuse of resources is accelerating today’s negative trends in climate change, ecosystem destruction, and biodiversity loss. The ultimate result is contemporary human societies are reaching or exceeding the limits of planetary boundaries. It is therefore imperative to articulate a new theoretical understanding of resources and the ethical, political and environmental conditions of their use. In this article, we introduce a radical departure from existing paradigms, which treat resources as having fixed essential qualities usually ready-to-exploit by anyone who finds them, to a non-essentialist theory of how resources never exist in this fashion as such. Instead, they come into being as the result of social processes. We label this approach resourcification. This shift offers a new theoretical platform for developing a post-sustainability understanding of the relationships of humans to humans, to other living creatures, and to the physical environment, which is more suited to meet the challenges of working with the sustainable development goals in the Anthropocene.
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- Hultman, Johan, et al.
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Resourcification and Tourism
- 2024
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In: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism.
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Hultman, Johan, et al.
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Seaweed-Making in the Anthropocene
- 2023. - 1
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In: Business Storytelling and Sustainability. - : World Scientific Publishing. - 9789811280900 ; , s. 75-89
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The fulfillment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is very much an issue about resources: How are resources articulated, created, and utilized? What is considered a resource, what exists in abundance, what is scarce, and when does something cease to be a resource? In our contribution, we address these issues with a focus on seaweed. By analyzing stories from environmental planners and ecopreneurs about seaweed, we demonstrate the phenomenon called resourcification — the social process that makes something a resource. From the stories, we illustrate the contexts of the resourcification and de-resourcification of seaweed. This allows us to show how resources, such as seaweed, are socially produced and become part of life. To conclude, we suggest that resourcification provides a provisional sustainability storyline suitable for working toward the SDGs in the Anthropocene.
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- Hultman, Johan, et al.
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Unthinking sustainability through resourcification studies
- 2020
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In a world of nearly 10 billion people, competition for the conditions of life and wealth can only accelerate. Our contention is that with such increasing competition, more and more material as well as immaterial things will be turned into resources – a process that we suggest to label resourcification.Resourcification is not another term for processes of economisation such as commodification and marketisation – even if each of these can be part of it. Resourcification makes explicit that things are not turned into resources by themselves, nor are they turned into resources randomly. Resources are literally produced, and resourcification as a concept and process intend to provide an understanding of how, where, when, and for whom this production happens, thus creating a platform for a socio-ecological critique of the current economic, social and environmental order. For example, resourcification intends to go beyond the observation that common-pool resources such as ecosystem services are increasingly being priced, privatised and enclosed; it aims at explaining why such a development is possible, how it happens, and who gets to lose or benefit from it.Processes of resourcification are complex and poorly explored. A resource is commonly understood as having an a priori potential to become valuable. Thus, in sustainability research, focus has been on the sustainable management of resources. Yet, as for example valuation studies argue, nothing is valuable in and of itself in a social system. All things need to go through a situated process of valuation to gain value, highlighting the politics of value and of valuation. In the same way, things will only become resources if they go through a situated process of resourcification. In this way, resourcification is to resource what valuation is to value: a way to shift attention away from essentialist queries about the nature of resources and towards a practical understanding of the social processes where things are turned into resources. We argue that the time is ripe to open up a field of resourcification studies to vitalise critical discourse on social-environmental interaction, thereby finding new approaches to analyse societies that seem genuinely unable to engage in profound change and renew themselves in order to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene.We argue that the concept of resourcification has the potential to become a theoretical and methodological tool to ‘unthink’ sustainability by proposing a perspective to articulate new questions to investigate sustainability problems. In this contribution, we would like to present a number of preliminary statements to introduce a resourcification studies framework. They are not meant to be understood as a comprehensive resourcification program, but rather as a starting point for exploring the potential for resourcification studies to vitalize research towards the sustainable transformations of societies.
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- Säwe, Filippa, et al.
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The making of a beach : Ecosystem services as mediator in the Anthropocene
- 2023
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In: Academic Quarter. - : Aalborg Universitetsforlag. - 1904-0008. ; 26, s. 34-50
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the Anthropocene, it becomes problematic to imagine a sustain-able balance between society and the environment. This calls for post-sustainability modes of articulating human/non-human rela-tionships. As an attempt towards an Anthropocenic understanding of society and the environment, we analyse how ecosystem services are mobilised in marine spatial planning in the south of Sweden. The study investigates how ecosystem services are understood and narrated in environmental strategy and interviews with environ-mental planners. We focus on seaweed and sand. These are two kinds of materials and potential resources that materially circulate Volume2635The making of a beachFilippa SäweJohan HultmanCecilia Fredrikssonacademicquarterresearch from the humanitiesakademisk kvarterAAUand force together society and the environment in planning dis-course and practice. Our findings show that although ecosystem services are readily understood as an anthropocentric construc-tion, when mobilised in planning to manage an unruly nature they can be re-storied as an ontological mediator in human/non-human relations.
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