The latest Environment and Society featured article is now available! This month’s article—”Carbon Value between Equivalence and Differentiation”—comes from Volume 5 (2014). In his article, Steffen Dalsgaard reviews the different understandings of value implicated in debates about the environment seen through carbon by contrasting the values embedded in some of the various initiatives that have resulted from the Kyoto Protocol, and how they relate to the market, government control, and individual consumer morality, among other things.
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STEFFEN DALSGAARD is Head of the research group Technologies in Practice and of the Department of Business IT at the IT University of Copenhagen. He holds a PhD in anthropology and ethnography from Aarhus University. Since 2002 he has conducted research in the province of Manus, Papua New Guinea, specializing in state and political leadership with a particular focus on tradition, exchange, and elections. He is currently working on two projects: democratic technologies in Denmark and the introduction of carbon as a form of value. Among his recent publications is “Time and the Field,” a special issue of Social Analysis edited with Morten Nielsen (2013).