Social Metabolism and Valuation Disputes
The industrial economy is not circular. It is entropic, with an enormous “entropy hole” or “circularity gap” at its centre. This is the main cause of the conflicts at the frontiers of commodity extraction and waste disposal. We elicit the different social values displayed at such conflicts.
Date:
21 May 2024, 16:30
Venue:
Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details:
Third Floor Seminar Room
Speaker:
Dr Joan Martínez-Alier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Organising department:
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organiser:
Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
envhums@torch.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Environmental Humanities Research Hub
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Martha Swift
