The Cultural Complexity of Carbon

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.

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.