Designing sustainability in blues: the limits of technospatial growth imaginaries

Kaşdoğan, Duygu

doi:10.1007/s11625-019-00766-w

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“…Resource sovereignty and accumulation in the blue economy: the case of seabed mining in Namibia Childs (2020) Performing `blue degrowth': critiquing seabed mining in Papua New Guinea through creative practice Childs and Hicks (2019) Securing the blue: political ecologies of the blue economy in Africa Choi (2017) The Blue Economy as governmentality and the making of new spatial rationalities Ertör-Akyazi (2020) Contesting growth in marine capture fisheries: the case of small-scale fishing cooperatives in Istanbul Karnad and St. Martin (2020) Assembling marine spatial planning in the global south: International agencies and the fate of fishing communities in India. Maritime Studies Kaşdoğan (2020) Designing sustainability in blues: the limits of technospatial growth imaginaries Kyvelou and Ierapetritis (2019) Discussing and analyzing "maritime cohesion" in MSP, to achieve sustainability in the marine realm Nogué-Algueró ( 2020)…”

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“…As an ecological system, the oceans attract divergent perspectives of their role in a Blue Economy. These range from oceans as economically productive ecologies (Kaşdoğan 2020), sometimes quantified or monetised as natural capital (Satizábal et al 2020), to the ocean as a dynamic, living, material, relational, unbounded domain (e.g. Aschenbrenner and Winder 2019) embodying not only traditional, natural resource-based livelihoods, but also indigenous spiritual "one-world" cosmologies (e.g.…”

Section: Governmentality Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…State territories become a myriad of "institutional investment projects" (Winder and Le Heron 2017) promoting high growth sectors such as the bio-economy. Economism, prioritisation through an economic calculus, is promoted through technoscientific discourses (Kaşdoğan 2020). BE features strongly as territory to be governed, reflecting the creation of Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) as "sovereign territory" (actually Fig.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Blue Growth attempts to re-frame economy as economic practices that reflect ecological conditions and harbours a number of discourses. The BE is seen as a container full of unexploited wealth (Kaşdoğan 2020). It targets under-utilised resources (e.g.…”

Section: Governmentality Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

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What is the Blue Economy? A spatialised governmentality perspective

Midlen

2021

Maritime Studies

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The Blue Economy is a recent economic development paradigm, being promoted worldwide as a way to deliver sustainable ocean development in the context of the sustainable development goals. Research has drawn attention to its contested nature and the propensity of sectoral interests to co-opt it to their own ends. An emerging body of critical studies of the Blue Economy, as practiced, provides an opportunity to address the question “What is the blue economy?” in new ways. This review of published empirical case studies initiates a conversation between governmentality concepts and place-space–time theory, aiming to open new lines of enquiry regarding the influence of spatiality on the nature of governance. This approach has allowed the elucidation of a complex and nuanced understanding of the Blue Economy, complementing earlier discourse and content analyses. In relation to Blue Economy governance, I pose the specific question, “Does place matter?”, leading to an interrogation of material and spatial relations in Blue Economy governance. I describe a complex spatialised governmentality, dominated by growth-based imaginaries and market-led practices. I draw attention to the production of ocean space through socio-material Blue Economy relations and the material and spatial contingency of its governance. Finally, I draw a distinction between “place” and “location” which has important consequences for Blue Economy governance.

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Section: Governmentality Perspectivementioning

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Section: Governmentality Perspectivementioning

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What is the Blue Economy? A spatialised governmentality perspective

Midlen

2021

Maritime Studies

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“…The role of biofuels in the BE is gaining momentum. The research of Kaşdoğan [66] examines algae-based biofuel production systems designed on the high seas and integrated with wastewater treatment and carbon dioxide absorption processes to revitalize faith in biofuels in the BE.…”

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Challenges of the Blue Economy: evidence and research trends

2021

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Background The Blue Economy is a recent field of study that encompasses economic activities that depend on the sea, often associated with other economic sectors, including tourism, maritime transport, energy and fishing. Blue growth supports the sustainable growth of the maritime and marine sectors as the oceans and seas are engines of the global economy and have great potential for growth and innovation. This article undertakes a bibliometric analysis in the terms of Blue Economy (BE), Maritime Economy (MAE), Ocean Economy (OE), Marine Economy (ME), and Blue Growth (BG) to analyze the scientific production of this field of study. Analysis of the authors’ definitions of BE, BG, ME and OE provides interesting relationships divided into sustainability and governance; economics and ecosystem protection; industrial development and localization; and the growth of the ocean economy, with development as the central axis that encompasses them. The main contribution is to find out if there is a link between the BE and the CE through the keyword study. Results The results show a significant increase in articles and citations over the last decade. The articles address the importance of different sectors of BE and the interest of governments in promoting it for the development of their national economies. Using bibliometric mapping tools (VOSviewer), it is possible to find possible links between concepts such as CE and BE through the BG and to visualize trending topics for future research. Nascent and future research trends include terms such as small-scale fisheries, aquatic species, biofuel, growth of the coastal BE, internationalization and blue degrowth (BD), the latter approaches aspects of BG from a critical perspective. Conclusions In conclusion, it highlights the need for alliances between the sectors that compose BG with the incorporation of the CE in order to achieve a sustainable BE in both developed and developing countries. Through the keyword analysis it is shown that the BG strategy is the bridge between the BE and the CE. The CE presents itself as a promising alternative that could mitigate tensions between stakeholders who support both growth and degrowth positions.

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The more things change, the more they stay the same: promises of bioeconomy and the economy of promises

et al. 2023

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This editorial lays out the core themes of the special feature and provides an overview of the contributions. It introduces the main argument, namely that the promises of far-reaching change made by recent bioeconomy policies are in fact strategically directed at avoiding transformative change to existing societal arrangements. Bioeconomy discourse showcases technological solutions purported to solve sustainability ‘problems’ while sustaining economic growth, but avoids issues of scalability, integration or negative consequences. Thus, bioeconomy policies, and particularly the latest versions of the predominantly European ‘bio-resource’ variety that have rhetorically integrated a lot of previous sustainability-minded criticism, serve to ward off or delay challenges to an unsustainable status quo, in effect prolongating the escalatory imperatives of capitalist modernity that are at the root of current crises. The editorial’s second part highlights the contributions that the 13 featured articles, based on theoretical considerations as well as policy analyses and empirical case studies from a range of countries, make to this argument.

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Designing sustainability in blues: the limits of technospatial growth imaginaries

Cited by 10 publications

References 67 publications

What is the Blue Economy? A spatialised governmentality perspective

What is the Blue Economy? A spatialised governmentality perspective

Challenges of the Blue Economy: evidence and research trends

The more things change, the more they stay the same: promises of bioeconomy and the economy of promises

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