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PhD:
UNDERSTANDING CARBON LOCK-IN OF ENERGY AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
THROUGH POWER/IGNORANCE
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I hold a PhD from the Technical Faculty of IT & Design of Aalborg University in Denmark. My doctoral dissertation focuses on why the global use of fossil fuels continues to increase when the urgency of a transformation to renewable energy is obvious. In two case studies, I examine how carbon lock-in takes place in the making of information and energy infrastructure. Case study A examines the approval process around the Danish-British electric interconnector project Viking Link. Case study B looks at the pursuit of peer-to-peer electricity trading enabled by the information technology blockchain.
PhD adviser:
Professor Frede Hvelplund, Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark
Assessment committee:
Professor Inge Røpke (Chair), Department of Planning, Aalborg University (DK)
Professor Dominic Boyer, Rice University (US)
Professor Catherine Mitchell, University of Exeter (UK)
Date of PhD Viva: June 10, 2020.
Moderator: Senior Advisor Margrethe Holm Andersen, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University (DK)
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PAPERS OF THE DISSERTATION
Along with the extended cover essay, three papers comprise my PhD dissertation:
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OTHER PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS
During the PhD period, I have also published in a German journal and a German newspaper:
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FoucaultBlog
Kirsten Hasberg talks to Dominic Boyer, anthropologist and author of Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene, and to Colin Koopman, philosopher and author of How We Became our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person.
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