I am an ethnographer and political ecologist interested in corporate sustainability and sustainable finance. As part of the SUSTEIN project, I study the way sustainability certifications are developed, contested, and enforced in global value chains.
Matthew Archer
P R I M A R Y R E S E A R C H A R E A S
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Corporate sustainability
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Sustainable finance
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Environmental anthropology
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Political ecology
S E L E C T E D P U B L I C A T I O N S
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Archer, Matthew. (Forthcoming). “Navigating the Sustainability Landscape: Impact Pathways, Mental Maps, and the Sustainability Ethic as a Moral Compass.” Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. -
Archer, Matthew. (2020). “Stakes and Stakeholders in the Climate Casino: Shallow Play and Thin Description.” GeoHumanities. -
Archer, Matthew. (2020). "Appreciation." In Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon. Edited by Cymene Howe and Anand Pandian. Punctum Press. -
Archer, Matthew. (2019). "Sustainable Finance." Oxford Bibliographies: Environmental Science. -
Baral, Prajwal, Mikkel Larsen and Matthew Archer. (2019). "Does Money Grow on Trees? Reforestation Financing in Southeast Asia." Washington, DC: Atlantic Council. -
Chatti, Deepti, Matthew Archer, Myles Lennon and Michael R. Dove (2018). "Exploring the Mundane: Toward an Ethnographic Approach to Bioenergy." Energy Research & Social Science. -
De Haes, Jan and Matthew Archer. (2017). "Nostalgia for the Way Things Never Were: Ambivalence and Ambiguity in the Mississippi Delta." Lo Squaderno. -
Archer, Matthew. (2015). "Benjamin in China, or the Silk Market Project: On the Changing Nature of the Commodity." Semiotica.
C O M M U N I C A T I O N
19.12.2017
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