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dc.contributor.authorField, Sean
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-29T11:30:09Z
dc.date.available2023-05-29T11:30:09Z
dc.date.issued2023-06-08
dc.identifier283895619
dc.identifier5e2ec30e-cda0-431b-9c32-53e1a354f39d
dc.identifier85160224590
dc.identifier.citationField , S 2023 , ' Value as ethics : climate change, crisis, and the struggle for the future ' , Economic Anthropology , vol. 10 , no. 2 , pp. 177-185 . https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12286en
dc.identifier.issn2330-4847
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/27694
dc.descriptionFunding: H2020 European Research Council - 715146.en
dc.description.abstractDrawing on ethnographic research in Houston, Texas, I contribute novel ethnographic insights into how oil and gas experts understand notions of value. I show that prevailing notions of value are normatively defined in economic terms and closely tied to understandings of an American ‘way of life’. Questions of value, I suggest, reveal our idiosyncratic and shared ethical orientations toward what we think is important and the futures we are fighting to create. The climate crisis, as such, is not a crisis of emissions or hydrocarbons, but a crisis of the ways value is assigned to worldly things. I conclude by arguing that until we address questions of value we are unlikely to address the existential crisis of anthropogenic climate change.
dc.format.extent9
dc.format.extent788426
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEconomic Anthropologyen
dc.subjectValueen
dc.subjectEthicsen
dc.subjectHydrocarbonsen
dc.subjectClimate changeen
dc.subjectFutureen
dc.subjectCrisisen
dc.subjectBJ Ethicsen
dc.subjectGE Environmental Sciencesen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subjectSDG 13 - Climate Actionen
dc.subjectACen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccBJen
dc.subject.lccGEen
dc.titleValue as ethics : climate change, crisis, and the struggle for the futureen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Research Councilen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Energy Ethicsen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Social Anthropologyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12286
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumber715146en


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