Calculating the carbon footprint: Implications for governing emissions and gender relations

Thereza R.S. de Aguiar, Anne Fearfull and María V. Sanagustín Fons

Accounting Forum, 2016, vol. 40, issue 2, 63-77

Abstract: In this article, we use fresh empirical evidence, and draw on feminist and critical accounting and organizational theories to contend that carbon calculators can be interpreted as discriminatory control technologies. They do this by providing a new and flexible vocabulary for governing expenses, costs and investments at a distance, avoiding a sense of direct intervention by the government. Thus, given our stance that the carbon calculator cannot be considered a neutral tool, we argue that it has the potential to control personal responsibilities regarding both environmental and family-based issues.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2016.04.001

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