Memo+13-Research+Design+Grid

-Can you have a sustainable good without a sustainable society? -How has the introduction of plastic gone from a novelty, to an invisible? How do you make it less invisible? -If a product comes out that runs completer to a cultures norms will it succeed? What interventions must occur before and during for success to occur? -In an era of globalization how much of a culture is made up from the global market for goods and resources? || -secondary literature review
 * ~ Aims ||~ Questions ||~ Data Collection ||~ Emerging Arguments ||~ Literatures ||
 * < Extend the scholarship on material culture || -How do existing industries shape changes in technological development?

-comparison of U.S. based industry and society and EU industry and society || -1. The problems of greenwashing / lame sustainability in the production of sustainable goods

Visions of Sustainability through the eyes of embedded individuals (smart), academics, social movements, and industry

Have social movements missed the importance of shifting material culture in the focus on technologies and specific industries?

Technological fixes vs. the wholesale recreation of waste management practices, consumerism, waste culture.

The changing of practice through the changes in material culture are limited, thus simple alt. pathways are not enough, will take forever, or will end up getting incorporated into the systems that are not targeted in such a way as to simply promote those static problems.

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Technology as prothesis

Technology as politics

Standpoint epistemology and imaginaries and pathways || -how is sustainability codified through regulatory agency actions or standardization codes? -How do the different actor groups utilize sustainability as a framing device? -How has sustainability and green been coopted from the original code makers for the use of greenwashing actions or lame sustainability? -How and by whom are goods and processes determined to be sustainable? -what is the difference between sustainable and green? -can you have a sustainable good and not a sustainable society? || -Interviews with distributors, wholesalers, primary and secondary manufacturers, farm advocates, (check "what's going on memo")
 * < Work on the formation of sustainability as an object of contention || -what are the discursive conflicts over the use of the word sustainability?

-Narrative Policy Analysis of legislative attempts at producing biobased goods and records of contention

-Interviews with advocates

-Discourse analysis of movement literature and industry documents || Does removing yet another category of materiality from a good make sense in a society that already distances itself from its goods? In other words petroplastics are already considered a non-item that is usually a wrapper to the real good, however the plastics have a tendency to stay around and are thus more 'material'. Will bioplastics that degrade rapidly remove yet another obstacle to the realization of consumption?

Does recycling as a material practice hold so much weight that alternatives are tough to manage? || Social movements

framing literature

Countervalences

Fields of contention (Bourdieu?)

Anthropology of social movements

cradle to cradle vs cradle to not as bad as the other stuff || -Why has biobased been fixated on foodstocks as feedstocks? -Can the potential sustainability of biobased be extended without considering the sources of the material? -Can localism in agriculture support an industry that is attempting to replace the millions of tons of plastic goods in a society? -Can GM ever be a good thing? || -Interviews with farmers in EU and US that produce the feedstocks for biobased goods, mostly likely coop groups
 * < Work out agriculture as feedstock rather than food || -How are bioplastics different than biofuels?

-Interviews with Novamont and Natureworks representatives

-interviews with local first advocates || -industrial agriculture and biotech companies will shift the market towards efficiency criteria rather than sustainability

-using agriculture other than for food is an ethical problem

-bioplastic or biofuel?

-Whom get to put in input on the subject?

-What do extension agents have to do in the formation of this industry as translators between farms, research and industry? || -history of agriculture as industry feedstocks

-debate over food vs. fuel

- || -how can social movement utilize consumption changes, national and internation shifts in supply, and rising awareness of ecological problems for changing material culture? -can social movements transgress the boundaries typically found amongst movement groups to work with existing institutions for more systematic changes in material culture? || All of the above
 * < Work on how enunciatory communities, technology and product oriented movements, environmental movements, Industry oriented movements and other social movements are different and complementary? || -is global oil instability enough of a 'catastrophe' to form enunciatory communities?

PLUS

-secondary review of other nations shifts to alternative goods and feedstocks, e.g. Brazil, Norway, ??? || -global markets are bad?

-labor and environment can't get along

-working with industry or working within industry is selling out ||  ||