Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities : : Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production.

• Author: Backhouse, Maria.
• TeilnehmendeR: Lehmann, Rosa.; Lorenzen, Kristina.; Lühmann, Malte.; Puder, Janina.; Rodríguez, Fabricio.; Tittor, Anne.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (339 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Contextualizing the Bioeconomy in an Unequal World: Biomass Sourcing and Global Socio-Ecological Inequalities -- 1.1 Rethinking the Bioeconomy, Energy, and Value Production -- 1.2 Bioeconomy Policies and Agendas in Different Countries -- 1.3 Reconfigurations and Continuities of Socio-Ecological Inequalities in Rural Areas -- 1.4 The Extractive Side of Global Biomass Sourcing -- 1.5 Outlook -- References -- Part II Rethinking the Bioeconomy, Energy, and Value Production -- 2 Global Inequalities and Extractive Knowledge Production in the Bioeconomy -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Bioeconomy and the Critique of This New Form of Ecological Modernisation -- 2.3 Critical Perspectives on Unequal Global Knowledge Production -- 2.4 The Continued Global Division of Labour in Knowledge Production -- 2.5 Extractive Knowledge Production in Brazil -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Neoliberal Bioeconomies? Co-constructing Markets and Natures -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Neoliberalism -- 3.2.1 What Is Neoliberalism? -- 3.2.2 Neoliberalizing Nature -- 3.3 Neoliberal Bioeconomy? Co-constructing Markets and Natures -- 3.3.1 Market Development Policies for the Bioeconomy -- 3.3.2 Co-construction of Markets and Natures in the Bioeconomy -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Tools of Extraction or Means of Speculation? Making Sense of Patents in the Bioeconomy -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 From Biotech to Native Traits -- 4.3 Patenting Native Traits: Shifts in the Legal Landscape in Europe -- 4.4 Tools of Extraction? -- 4.5 Using by not Using: Traditional Breeders and Native Trait Patents -- 4.6 Speculation, Not Innovation? Patents as Credit and Capital -- 4.7 Conclusion: Patents in the Bioeconomy -- References -- 5 Bioenergy, Thermodynamics and Inequalities.

5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Thermodynamic Energy as Politics -- 5.3 Bioenergy as Thermodynamic Energy: Deepening the Contradictions -- References -- Part III Bioeconomy Policies and Agendas in Different Countries -- 6 Knowledge, Research, and Germany's Bioeconomy: Inclusion and Exclusion in Bioenergy Funding Policies -- 6.1 Introduction: Bioenergy's Uncertain Prospects -- 6.2 Approaching Bioenergy: Epistemics and Justice -- 6.3 Bioenergy in the Transitioning Landscape of the German Bioeconomy: Empirical Insights -- 6.3.1 The Socio-Energy Nexus in Germany's Transition Towards Renewable Energies -- 6.3.2 Bioenergy Epistemics: Funding of Knowledge Production and Narratives -- 6.3.3 Bioenergy Justice: R&amp -- I Innovations and Societal Participation -- 6.4 Conclusion -- References -- 7 A Player Bigger Than Its Size: Finnish Bioeconomy and Forest Policy in the Era of Global Climate Politics -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Finnish Bioeconomy as a Forest Policy Regime -- 7.3 A Twofold Threat to the Regime: Carbon Sinks and EU Regulation -- 7.4 The Regime Under Shock -- 7.5 The Battle in the EU -- 7.6 Stabilising the Regime -- 7.7 Conclusion -- References -- 8 Sugar-Cane Bioelectricity in Brazil: Reinforcing the Meta-Discourses of Bioeconomy and Energy Transition -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Analytical Framework -- 8.3 The Landscape: The Meta-Discourses of Bioeconomy and Energy Transition -- 8.4 An Emerging Renewable Electricity Regime -- 8.5 Is There a Niche for Sugar-Cane Bioelectricity? -- 8.6 Conclusions -- References -- Part IV Reconfigurations and Continuities of Social-ecological Inequalities in Rural Areas -- 9 Buruh Siluman: The Making and Maintaining of Cheap and Disciplined Labour on Oil Palm Plantations in Indonesia -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Moving Beyond Working Conditions: Theoretical Remarks.

9.3 Women "Coolies", Nyai, and the (Re-)Production of a Plantation Labour Subject -- 9.4 Working Conditions of Female Labour on Oil Palm Plantations in Riau -- 9.5 Cheap and Disciplined Labour as a Key Feature of Labour Relations on Oil Palm Plantations -- References -- 10 Superexploitation in Bio-based Industries: The Case of Oil Palm and Labour Migration in Malaysia -- 10.1 Introduction: Bioeconomy as Green Capitalism -- 10.2 Analysing Social Inequalities as Class Relations -- 10.3 Migratory Work in Malaysia: The State's Labour Migration Regime -- 10.4 Working Conditions of Migrant Plantation and Mill Workers -- 10.4.1 Un(der)Paid, Underemployed and Undocumented -- 10.4.2 Struggling to Reproduce Livelihoods -- 10.4.3 Barriers to Workers' Struggle -- 10.5 Conclusion: Bioeconomy as a Continuation of Superexploitation? -- References -- 11 Sugarcane Industry Expansion and Changing Rural Labour Regimes in Mato Grosso do Sul (2000-2016) -- 11.1 The Interrelations of Bioeconomy, Brazilian Sugarcane and Social Inequalities -- 11.2 Towards an Analytical Framework of Unequal Access to Labour and Land -- 11.2.1 Social Inequalities as Asymmetrical Access to Labour and Land -- 11.2.2 Labour Regimes as Combining Access to Labour and Land -- 11.3 The Brazilian Sugarcane Sector and Its Recent Changes -- 11.4 The Impact of the Expansion of the Sugarcane Industry on Access to Labour and Land -- 11.4.1 Wage Work: Mechanisation, Employment Creation and Unemployment -- 11.4.2 Subsistence Work: Land Prices and Access to Land -- 11.5 Discussion and Outlook: Labour Regimes in Sugarcane Industry Expansion -- References -- 12 Territorial Changes Around Biodiesel: A Case Study of North-Western Argentina -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Theoretical and Methodological Framework -- 12.3 Agrofuels Production in Argentina.

12.4 Territorial Changes Due to Agribusiness in North-Western Argentina -- 12.5 Biodiesel and the Impacts of Agroindustry in Santiago Del Estero -- 12.6 Conclusions -- References -- Part V The Extractive Side of the Global Biomass Sourcing -- 13 Contested Resources and South-South Inequalities: What Sino-Brazilian Trade Means for the "Low-Carbon" Bioeconomy -- 13.1 Introduction: Bioeconomy and South-South Inequalities -- 13.2 South-South Cooperation and Energy Consumption -- 13.3 Going Global? Brazil Pushes for a "Low-Carbon" Bioeconomy -- 13.4 Carbon-Intensive: Sino-Brazilian Trade from a Bioeconomy Perspective -- 13.5 Conclusion -- References -- 14 Sustaining the European Bioeconomy: The Material Base and Extractive Relations of a Bio-Based EU-Economy -- 14.1 European Bioeconomy-Global Biomass Sourcing? -- 14.2 The Capitalist World System, Extractivism and Extractive Relations -- 14.3 Biomass Flows and the EU-Economy Today -- 14.4 Projections for a European Bioeconomy -- 14.5 Questioning the Transnational Sustainability in the European Bioeconomy -- References -- 15 Towards an Extractivist Bioeconomy? The Risk of Deepening Agrarian Extractivism When Promoting Bioeconomy in Argentina -- 15.1 Introduction: Argentina as a Bioeconomy Pioneer -- 15.2 Agrarian Extractivism as a Tool for Analysing Argentina's Bioeconomy -- 15.3 The Expansion of Soybean as Agrarian Extractivism in Argentina -- 15.4 Argentina's Expectations for the Bioeconomy -- 15.4.1 Biotechnology, Fertilizers, Pesticides and no-till Farming as a Key Basis of Bioeconomy -- 15.4.2 Agro-Industrialization and "Adding Value" as a Key Goal Within Bioeconomy -- 15.4.3 On Sustainable Innovations and Counter-Tendencies to Agrarian Extractivism -- 15.5 Conclusion: Towards an Extractive Bioeconomy? -- References -- Index.