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Abstract
Lithium-ion battery (LIB) production as a central part of decarbonisation strategies is driving mineral extraction in countries of the global South, where they exacerbate existing conflicts over the creation and distribution of value. Value, however, is a contested concept. Following the pragmatic sociology of values, we argue that the analysis of value creation and distribution cannot be separated from the intersubjective and normative conflicts over valuation. We examine valuation controversies in Madagascar as a mining dispute by describing the grammar of values on the example of taxation design in Madagascar’s mining reform influenced by LIB production. Empirical evidence from ethnographic fieldwork and expert interviews on negotiations between stakeholders’ different principles of value helped identify conflicting value justifications and finding local compromises. Here, the pervasive nature of neoliberal economisation is monopolised by a specific interpretation of value wired to investors’ expectations and complicated by path-dependent legacies. Our analysis illustrates how asymmetric economic power favours particular economic and operating registers of a ‘green capitalism’ valuation system. Building on the analytical gain of Heinich’s novel pragmatic value approach, we show how the recent mining reform in Madagascar is contested and that compromise around value remains fragile (or impossible) in the current institutional context.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-19 |
Journal | Environment and Planning F |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 16 Apr 2024 |
Keywords
- Valuation controversies
- economisation
- mining dispute
- pragmatic approach
- value
Projects
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AltFin: Regional approaches towards alternative economies and sustainable finance
Schulz, C. & Dörry, S.
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)
1/07/20 → 30/04/24
Project: Research
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Spaces of Global Production
Ouma, S., Stenmanns, J., Dannenberg, P., Follmann, A., Derudder, B., Dörry, S., Kleibert, J., van Meeteren, M. & Scholvin, S., 31 Mar 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology. Richardson, D., Castree, N., Goodchild, M. F., Kobayashi, A., Liu, W. & Marston, R. A. (eds.). Wiley, 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Connecting alternative economies and sustainable finance with regional development: the examples of France, Germany and Luxembourg
Dörry, S., Schulz, C., Emrick-Schmitz, E. & Hercelin, N., 6 May 2021, In: Regions e-Zine. 9, 6.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Financing post-growth? Green financial products for changed logics of production
Dörry, S. & Schulz, C., 10 Dec 2021, Post-Growth Geographies. : Spatial Relations of Diverse and Alternative Economies. Lange, B., Hülz, M., Schmid, B. & Schulz, C. (eds.). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, p. 241-261 20 p. (Social and Cultural Geography).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Globale Wertschöpfungsketten im Tourismus: Ohnmächtige Unternehmen in mächtiger Position? Relationale Governance bei der Organisation deutscher Pauschalreisen nach Jordanien
Dörry, S., 2008, Lit Verlag. 272 p. (Wirtschaftsgeographie; no. 45)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review