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Value as ethics : climate change, crisis, and the struggle for the future
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dc.contributor.author | Field, Sean | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-29T11:30:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-05-29T11:30:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-06-08 | |
dc.identifier | 283895619 | |
dc.identifier | 5e2ec30e-cda0-431b-9c32-53e1a354f39d | |
dc.identifier | 85160224590 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Field , 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/sea2.12286 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2330-4847 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/27694 | |
dc.description | Funding: H2020 European Research Council - 715146. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Drawing 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.extent | 9 | |
dc.format.extent | 788426 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Economic Anthropology | en |
dc.subject | Value | en |
dc.subject | Ethics | en |
dc.subject | Hydrocarbons | en |
dc.subject | Climate change | en |
dc.subject | Future | en |
dc.subject | Crisis | en |
dc.subject | BJ Ethics | en |
dc.subject | GE Environmental Sciences | en |
dc.subject | NDAS | en |
dc.subject | SDG 13 - Climate Action | en |
dc.subject | AC | en |
dc.subject | MCC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | BJ | en |
dc.subject.lcc | GE | en |
dc.title | Value as ethics : climate change, crisis, and the struggle for the future | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | European Research Council | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Energy Ethics | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Social Anthropology | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12286 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 715146 | en |
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