Comments+for+Sean+memos+5-9

Comments for Sean memo 5-9

Your delineating questions seem a little closely related, certainly they are different focuses, but the three of them could be one question: What have consumers and business participants in the creation of a bioplastics industry contributed successfully and failed in contributing? Splitting the groups of actors does offer different foci, but I wonder if you could find other projects in here… Your history does a good job showing that bioplastics as an idea have emerged several times, and the sort of boundary work you focus on in your delineation would have been different each time, but what do the historical failures to materialize tell you?

Your structure doesn’t have much culture in it? Where are popular perceptions of environmental issues? What about the style/fashion for being “green”? What about the notion of consumerism and the demand for remediation with greener products rather than challenge to the basic over consumption? How would you look to answer your question “How does the sociocultural backdrop of institutions shape their development?”

You should add STS to your Fields of work list.