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Calculating the carbon footprint:implications for governing emissions and gender relations
In this article, we use fresh empirical evidence, and draw on feminist and critical
accounting and organisational 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