【社會經濟史研究群講論會】

主講人：Mr. Jesse Rodenbiker（Assistant Professor of Geography at Rutgers University-New Brunswick）
題  目：作為「跨界之物」的生物多樣性：跨城市海產市場的中心與邊陲（Biodiversity as Transboundary Object: Centers and Edges of Marine Wildlife Markets Across Cities）
時  間：2026年7月15日（二）11:00-13:00
地  點：中央研究院臺灣史研究所802室(人文社會科學館北棟八樓)
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5.Rodenbiker教授本次演講主題的專書有提供線上的開放取用，連結如下：https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501769016/ecological-states/#bookTabs=1

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Abstract　摘要

Biodiversity loss is often thought of in functionalist terms in relation to population size and area-based abundance. Departing from this functionalist model, Rodenbiker argues for a relational approach to biodiversity that extends beyond boundary objects, such as an ecosystem's areal extent or the edges of the city. In making this argument, this lecture contributes to reconceptualizing biodiversity as a transboundary object.

While the impacts of overfishing on marine wildlife are well-documented, the role of urban markets in driving biodiversity loss at sea remains understudied. Drawing on a placed-based planetary urbanization and urban political ecology framework, Rodenbiker's lecture analyzes extensive urban-hinterland relationships, inter-urban trade dynamics, and trans-oceanic circulations that undergird the transmutation of marine wildlife into commodities.

The operational landscape examined includes global centers of trade, particularly Hong Kong and Singapore, Southeast Asian cities that serve as labor markets, as well as international networks of traders. Mixed methods field research reveals extractive, circulatory, and commodification processes surrounding high-value marine wildlife commodities encompassing sea cucumber, abalone, fish maw and shark fins. Shark fins serve as the central commodity analyzed. In sum, a relational conceptualization of biodiversity loss attentive to how extended urbanization processes affect life beyond cities provides a critical entry point for reimagining biodiversity conservation and sustainable urbanization in a time of planetary polycrisis.

生物多樣性的流失通常是從功能論的角度來探討，涉及生物群體的規模大小，以及其於一定區域內的豐富程度。Rodenbiker卻脫離功能論，轉而從「關係」的角度理解生物多樣性，進而將此一概念延伸到各種「邊界」（boundary objects）之外。舉例而言，這些邊界可以是生態系統的空間範圍，或者一座城市的邊陲。循此，本次講座把生物多樣性重新概念化為一種「跨界之物」。

過度捕撈對海洋生物的影響已有充分紀錄，但在生物多樣性流失的過程中，都會市場所扮演的驅動性角色目前仍缺乏研究。本次演講借鑑「在地的全球都市化」（place-based planetary urbanization）和「都市政治生態學」（urban political ecology）框架，廣泛地分析了都市跟腹地的關係、都市之間的貿易動態，以及跨海洋的流通；正是這些關係網絡促使海洋生物轉化為商品。

受考察的運作場景包含了香港和新加坡等全球貿易中心、作為勞力市場的東南亞城市，以及貿易商的國際網絡。多取徑的田野調查揭示了海參、鮑魚、魚肚和魚翅等高價值海產商品背後，有著榨取、流通和商品化的過程。其中，魚翅是本次講座分析的核心商品。從關係的視角理解生物多樣性的流失，並關注都市化過程如何影響都市以外的生命；此一取徑提供一關鍵切入點，使我們得以在「全球多重危機」（planetary polycrisis）的時代裡，重新想像生物多樣性保育和永續性都市化。

個人簡歷

Jesse Rodenbiker is a human-environment geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist focusing on environmental governance, urbanization, and social inequality in China and globally. Rodenbiker is the author of the open-access book Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (2023, Cornell University Press), which was recognized as a 2025 Ludwik Fleck Prize Finalist by the Society for Social Studies of Science and a 2026 ACLS Open Access Book Prize Finalist in Environmental Humanities.

Rodenbiker currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Geography at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Previously, he has served as an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University with the Center on Contemporary China, a Cornell University Atkinson Postdoctoral Research Associate in Sustainability with the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, and as a Visiting Scholar at Sichuan University in the School of Public Administration and Department of Land Resource Management. He holds a doctorate in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley.

Jesse Rodenbiker是一位人文地理學者和跨領域社會學家，其研究專注於中國及全球的環境治理、都市化與社會不平等議題。著有專書《生態國家：都市化中國的科學與自然政治》（Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China，康乃爾大學出版社，2023）。該書不僅入圍2025年科學社會研究學會（Society for Social Studies of Science, 4S）「路德維克·弗萊克獎」（Ludwik Fleck Prize）決選名單，也入圍2026年美國學術團體聯合會（ACLS）環境人文領域「開放取用圖書獎」（Open Access Book Prize）決選名單。
Rodenbiker目前擔任羅格斯大學新布朗斯維克分校（Rutgers University-New Brunswick）地理學系助理教授。在此之前，他曾任普林斯頓大學「當代中國中心」副研究員、康乃爾大學自然資源與環境學系Atkinson永續發展博士後研究員，以及四川大學公共管理學院土地資源管理系訪問學人。他擁有加州大學柏克萊分校地理學博士學位。