Article ID: CBB894603993

The road ahead: Narratives and imaginaries of the value of biodiversity in shaping bioeconomy policy in Colombia (2022)

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In Colombia, the country’s biodiversity has been put at the heart of its bioeconomy policies. STS scholars have analyzed bioeconomy as the generation, commodification, and sale of ownership and biological material. Nonetheless, little attention has been given to bioprospecting initiatives in developing countries, let alone the incorporation of bioprospecting in bioeconomy policy. Further, the role of narratives about the value of the biological in supporting nation-building, or the relationship between nature, state, and its citizens, remain understudied. Based on interviews and fieldwork in policymaking committees, I argue that assumptions about biodiversity’s value and its valorization are supported by the use of genomic technologies; this allows further processes of value creation to remain uninterrogated. The need for Colombia to aspire to better futures accounts for the stability of assumptions about biodiversity’s value in recent decades. The right political climate has generated momentum for biological expeditions of Colombia’s territory and the rethinking of the social compact, in a country seeking to heal the wounds of an internal conflict with armed guerrillas – to become a more diverse and cohesive society. Ultimately, knowledge of biodiversity embeds assumptions of what nature is for, supporting a sociotechnical imaginary of how the country should be.

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Authors & Contributors
Noam Bergman
Amaia Pérez Orozco
Maxime Polleri
Debbie Hopkins
Sujatha Raman
Nakazora, Moe
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Imaginaries
Technology and politics
Sociotechnical systems
Future, The
science policy
Time Periods
21st century
Places
Great Britain
Latin America
South Korea
Singapore
East Asia
Colombia
Institutions
Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research - IVIC
Cisco Systems, Inc.
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
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