Rethinking the financialization of ‘nature’
这篇社论为特刊的实证论文提供分析框架，聚焦金融与自然关系中常被忽视的三个主题：金钱通过自然增值的摩擦过程、道德与情感在金融化中的作用、以及国家在其中的多重角色，并探讨信息政治与合法性问题，提出未来研究议程。
This editorial provides an analytical intervention to accompany the theme issue’s empirical papers on “Rethinking the Financialization of Nature.” The papers turn our attention towards three often neglected themes in prior research on finance and nature: (1) the frictional processes through which money leverages nature and resource-based ventures to produce more money (“Getting between M-C-M’”); (2) the role played by moralities, values, and affect in the financialization of nature and resistance levelled against it; and (3) the multiple roles of the state in mediating the circulation of finance in and through nature. We also engage with the politics of information and legitimation accompanying the financialization of nature to tease out levers for political critique. Finally, we map out a forward-looking agenda calling for research to engage more substantially with both the methodological questions accompanying the study of the financialization of nature, and the class dimensions of the process.