
Anne Jerneck
Professor, Docent

A Resourcification Manifesto: Understanding the Social Process of Resources Becoming Resources
Author
Summary, in English
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.
Department/s
- Department of Service Studies
- Faculty Office
- LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
- Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)
- BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
- Marketing
- Historical labour markets
- Systematic Biology Group
- Biological Museum
- Biodiversity
- Accounting and Corporate Finance
Publishing year
2021-06-11
Language
English
Publication/Series
Research Policy
Volume
50
Issue
9
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Elsevier
Topic
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
- Human Geography
- Business Administration
- Economic History
- Ecology
- Genetics
- Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Keywords
- Resourcification
- Resources
- Anthropocene
Status
Published
Project
- Service Studies Sustainability
- Metodutveckling för att hantera kvalitativa värden i havsplanering.
- Resourcification - Theme, Pufendorf IAS
Research group
- Systematic Biology Group
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0048-7333