Knowledge infrastructures and the paradox of enacting green and just transitions through dirty and unjust digital markets

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12717331
AutoresMalcolm Campbell‐verduyn (0000-0003-1081-5417, University of Groningen), Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn (University of Groningen, autor de correspondencia), Riccardo De Cristano (0000-0002-8926-0049, GNA University)
Año2026
Volumen23
Número4
Páginas1-21
Fecha de publicación2026-04-06
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobalizations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1474-7731 • E-ISSN: 1474-774X
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14747731.2026.2626101
OpenAlexW7151083891
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas40

How does knowledge of the material foundations and socio-ecological impacts of digital markets shape green and ‘just transitions’ efforts? This article argues that growing awareness of digital markets’ embeddedness in societies and ecologies paradoxically spurs further transnational market-led efforts to attend to the ecological impacts of digital markets. This argument is grounded in the case of blockchain-based digital asset markets emerging over the decade between 2014 and 2024. Growing knowledge of the dirty and unequal underpinnings of blockchain-based markets generated by academics and Environmental NGOs like Greenpeace is shown to have resulted in more rather than less market-driven initiatives. We contend that knowledge infrastructures foregrounding (dis)connections between the digital and the socio-ecological worlds are essential heuristics for better understanding possibilities and perils as well as enacting just transitions.

Capitalism · Digital economy · Power (physics · Sharing economy · State (computer science · Digital Education and Society · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure