Journal
RESEARCH POLICY
Volume 50, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2021.104297
Keywords
Resourcification; Resources; Anthropocene
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- Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Lund University, Sweden
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In the era of global interconnectedness and environmental change, the pressure to identify, create, and exploit new resources is increasing. The concept of resourcification shifts focus from essentialist queries about the nature of resources to a focus on the social processes by which things are turned into resources. Resourcification provides a new conceptual framework for systematic exploration of the diversity of contexts, conditions, modes, and temporalities of resources.
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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