Hi Ronnie, Emily Boyd, Peter Newell and I have co-edited a special issue in the current Antipode with a number of papers that you might find helpful:
Antipode, Volume 43 Number 3 CONTENTS The ‘New’ Carbon Economy Introduction The ‘New’ Carbon Economy: What’s New? Emily Boyd, Maxwell Boykoff and Peter Newell Part I: Constituting the ‘New’ Carbon Economy The Matter of Carbon: Understanding the Materiality of tCO2e in Carbon Offsets Adam G. Bumpus Making Markets Out of Thin Air: A Case of Capital Involution María Gutiérrez Between Desire and Routine: Assembling Environment and Finance in Carbon Markets Philippe Descheneau and Matthew Paterson Part II: Governing the ‘New’ Carbon Economy Ecological Modernisation and the Governance of Carbon: A Critical Analysis Ian Bailey, Andy Gouldson and Peter Newell Accounting for Carbon: The Role of Accounting Professional Organisations in Governing Climate Change Heather Lovell and Donald MacKenzie Part III: Effects of the ‘New’ Carbon Economy Realizing Carbon’s Value: Discourse and Calculation in the Production of Carbon Forestry Offsets in Costa Rica David M. Lansing Resisting and Reconciling Big Wind: Middle Landscape Politics in the New American West Roopali Phadke Cheers, max -- Assistant Professor, CIRES Center for Science & Technology Policy University of Colorado-Boulder http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/boykoff/ due out in September 2011: 'Who Speaks for the Climate?' Cambridge Univ Press www.cambridge.org/9780521133050 On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Ronnie Lipschutz <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All: > > Does anyone know of any work on the "social construction of carbon?" > > Ronnie > > -- > Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Professor of Politics, 234 Crown College > > UC-Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA > Phone: (831) 459-3275; Email: [email protected]; > Web: http://people.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch > > “All down history nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the > remaining tenth and have been paid with husks and bidden to thank god they > had the husks.” ---David Lloyd George--- > >
