Cultural Complexity of Carbon - Green Transformations in Contemporary Society

This volume discusses the transformational role that carbon - both as a concept and as a distinct set of material forms and effects - has come to play in social and cultural life.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Renewable energy communities for energy-poor households: policy mobility challenges in urban and peri-urban European contexts - Siddharth Sareen and Bérénice Girard; 2. Carbon footprint calculators and behaviour change - Quentin Gausset; 3.Configuring the carbon farmer: emerging practices of carbon accounting and biochar engagements in Danish agriculture - Inge-Merete Hougaard; 4. The footprint of anarchy: counting carbon in the Church - Katinka A. Schyberg; 5. Carbon in Chinese notions of ecological civilization: Policy of quantification or philosophy of promise? - Charlotte Bruckermann; 6. The social life of peat carbon and peat frontier making: an ethnographic study of peatland restoration in Central Kalimantan - Anu Lounela; 7. La#oma's pre- & post-carbon landscape: the ont*-politics of a vanished village - Ingmar Lippert; 8. Scaling the world through carbon: discursive decoupling, unity and climate responsibility in Stavanger, Norway - Andy Lautrup.

About the author

Steffen Dalsgaard is Professor in Anthropology of Digital Technology at the IT University of Copenhagen, where he is heading the interdisciplinary Center for Climate IT.
Andy Lautrup is an ethnographic researcher studying youth climate activism in Scandinavia drawing on insights from anthropology, science and technology studies and cultural theory.
Katinka A. Schyberg is an anthropologist by training and holds a PhD from the IT University of Copenhagen where she is associated with the Technologies in Practice research group (TiP).
Ingmar Lippert, anchor lecturer of Goethe University Frankfurt's STS programme at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, sustains a research focus on environmental governance and its digital reconfigurations.

Summary

This volume discusses the transformational role that carbon – both as a concept and as a distinct set of material forms and effects – has come to play in social and cultural life.

Product details

• Authors: Steffen Lautrup Dalsgaard
• Assisted by: Steffen Dalsgaard (Editor), Dalsgaard Steffen (Editor), Andy Lautrup (Editor), Ingmar Lippert (Editor), Katinka Schyberg (Editor), Katinka A. Schyberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032764856
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3276485-6
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Sociology, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Climate Change, Social impact of environmental issues, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology, Civil engineering, surveying and building