ABSTRACT
This chapter sheds new light on the mechanisms of calculation, displacement and stabilization of certain mobilized socio-technical constructions of nature(s) found in regulatory frameworks of environmental governance. In particular, the chapter explores how the non-material ‘discourses’ and associated material ‘practices’ that constitute Costa Rica’s attempt to achieve carbon neutrality have not been conceived as integral actants of the same process of translation, and how the resulting gap between the network’s materiality and its inscriptions will irremediably lead to a network breakdown. The paper shows ‘nature’ emerges as a contingent and politically embedded entity built on a precarious pattern of inclusion and exclusion.
