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This paper explores value making practices by asking how we know and make new relations of economy. The paper seeks to understand the connectivities that constitute the Hawkes Bay wine economy in a way not confined by sector or regional matrices. We explore the making of relations of (wine) economy, studying relationships among actors in Hawke's Bay wine economy, including cross-sectional exchanges, investment patterns and value chain linkages. This enables a more practice-centred and relational understanding of wine economies as constituted by assemblying practices. Thinking about wine economies as assemblages facilitates an enactive engagement in economic practices by geographers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Biological Economies research project has involved a five-year exploration of new rural value relations in two New Zealand regions. In this paper, we explore what the project has taught us about the need to deploy new conceptual and methodological tools to perform regional development differently. We draw on examples of experimentation in value creation, our own methodological experimentation, and ideas of assemblage to argue that new knowledge categories of capability, platforms, land resourcefulness, experimentation and economic rent open up the potential for a new methodology for stimulating regional economic change that we label 'enactive research'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Variable profitability within New Zealand's red meat sector has again led to the problematisation of its constitutive relationships. This problematisation has almost inevitably focused on the structural transformation of the sector. Rather than beginning with structural transformation, we draw on assemblage theory to trace the assembling work associated with three unstable bio-economic projects: Primera lamb, Wagyu beef and FarmIQ. The paper offers a cautionary assessment of experimentation and innovation in the red meat sector, and suggests that the search for an enduring structural solution will continually be disrupted by the lively materialities upon which the red meat sector relies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]