Materials as temporally specific phenomena: Specialization and compromise in bioplastics production

What is it about?

This study focuses on materials - the fundamental units of which everyday life is built. It explores how bioplastics, a group of materials that are rapidly and recently in the making, have come to be as they are and are changing, and the processes involved, particularly from a perspective that realises that we do not come across materials devoid of object forms in our daily lives.

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Why is it important?

This study produces a socio-technical account of a recently developing group of materials, and portrays bioplastics' relationship to various material and social dynamics, by exploring the processes of bioplastics’ industrial production and manufacturing into bioplastic products.. Most importantly it takes materials and products as separate entities, and pays attention to the interaction between the material and the product into which it is made.