The School of Political Science and Sociology Research Seminar: ‘BioEconomy and Society’

The School of Political Science and Sociology invite you to a research seminar with:

  Dr. phil. Alexander I. Stingl, Mag. Art.

‘BioEconomy and Society’

Cairnes Building, CA110

Thursday 20^th  of October, 2022 

1-2pm 

All Welcome!

Bio-Economy Works in Ecosystem Services, Biotechnology, and Global Political Economy: Elaborating a new field for the social sciences and situating my research program.

About:

The Bio-Economy is a recent and extremely powerful policy agenda, which is, however, existing mostly outside of the public consciousness. Originating in the discourse on “ecosystems” but being concretized institutionally and “coined” by European Union bureaucrats, this discursive formation and transnational policy network has problematic historic roots in a regime of exploitation while it affects the current transformation of the Global Political Economy as a whole. Respectively, I continually make the case for understanding the Bio-Economy as an emerging field that deserves more attention in the social sciences. In a 45-minute tour de force, I will sketch the stakes of the Bioeconomy in terms of its effects on ecosystem services, agro- and biotechnology, and the Global Political Economy, while marking important connections to its epistemic origins that it shares with the genealogy of the social sciences. I will, thereby and in conclusion, provide an introduction and overview to my currently ongoing and future research program.