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A Resourcification Manifesto: Understanding the Social Process of Resources Becoming Resources

Hultman, Johan LU ; Corvellec, Hervé LU orcid ; Jerneck, Anne LU ; Arvidsson, Susanne LU ; Ekroos, Johan LU ; Gustafsson, Clara LU ; Lundh Nilsson, Fay LU and Wahlberg, Niklas LU (2021) In Research Policy 50(9).
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... (More)
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. (Less)
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Resourcification, Resources, Anthropocene
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Research Policy
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50
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9
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104297
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7 pages
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Elsevier
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0048-7333
DOI
10.1016/j.respol.2021.104297
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Service Studies Sustainability
Metodutveckling för att hantera kvalitativa värden i havsplanering.
Resourcification - Theme, Pufendorf IAS
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English
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