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The political life of mitigation: from carbon accounting to agrarian counter-accounts

Galvin, Shaila Seshia; Silva Garzon, Diego Enrique
2024
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Title
The political life of mitigation: from carbon accounting to agrarian counter-accounts
Author
Galvin, Shaila Seshia
Silva Garzon, Diego Enrique
Linking Note
In: Climate change and critical agrarian studies. - London : Routledge, 2024. - Pages 119-142
Date
2024
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577.22 HEIA 132243
Content Type
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Note
This article seeks to stimulate analysis of how accounting knowledge, techniques, and practices work to incorporate agriculture and land use into climate mitigation. Accounting plays a significant role in the ways that capitalism inserts itself into, reworks, or reorganises agrarian webs of life. To study these processes, we train our critical gaze on accounting itself – its epistemic foundations, instruments, and narratives, and their implications for agrarian livelihoods and relations. Through the notion of “agrarian counter-accounts,” we conclude by considering the potential of alternative methodologies and understandings of account-giving, taking, and holding in struggles for agrarian climate justice.
Record Created
2023-12-21
Record ID
302485
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Open access - Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/)
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Centres and Programmes > Centre for International Environmental Studies (CIES)
Centres and Programmes > Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability (HCGS)
Academic Departments > Anthropology and Sociology of Development Department
Thematics > Environment and the Anthropocene
Thematics > Justice, Equity and Inclusion
Thematics > Sustainability and SDGs
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