Matthew Archer (M.B.)
Research projects
Affiliated Researcher, Sythetic Lives: The Futures of Mining (SYNTHLIVES), European Research Council, Geneva Graduate Institute, 2021-present
Co-investigator, Sustainability's Infrastructure: A novel ethnographic approach to the global value chain of certified tea (SUSTEIN), Danish Independent Research Fund, 2018-2021
Key publications
Recent publications
Other publications
Thylstrup, Nanna Bonde, Matthew Archer, and Henriette Steiner. Desiloization and its discontents: The politics of data storage in the age of platformization. Information, Communication, and Society. Available open access here.
Archer, Matthew and Filipe Calvão. (2024). "Sustaining decarbonisation: Energy storage, green extractivism, and the future of mining." Antipode. Available open access here.
Archer, Matthew. (2024.) Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability. New York: New York University Press.
Archer, Matthew. (2024). "Governing through ESG and the Green Spirit of Asset Manager Capitalism." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. Available open access here.
Calvão, Filipe, Matthew Archer, and Asanda Benya. (2023.) "Introduction: Global Lives of Extraction." International Development Policy | Revue Internationale de politique de développement. Available open access here.
Calvão, Filipe, Asanda Benya, and Matthew Archer. (2023.) "Introduction: Global Afterlives of Extraction." International Development Policy | Revue Internationale de politique de développement. Available open access here.
Souleles, Daniel, Matthew Archer, and Morten Sørenson Thaning. (2023). "Introduction to special issue: Value, values, and anthropology." Economic Anthropology. Available open access here.
Archer, Matthew. (2022). "The ethics of ESG: Sustainable finance and the emergence of the market as an ethical subject." Focaal: The Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. Available open access here.
Thylstrup, Nanna, Matthew Archer, and Louis Ravn. (2022). "Transparency." Internet Policy Review. Available open access here.
Archer, Matthew and Hannah Elliott. (2021). "'It's up to the market to decide': Revealing and concealing power in the Kenyan tea supply chain." Critique of Anthropology. Available open access here.
Archer, Matthew and Daniel Souleles. (2021). "Introduction: Ethnographies of power and the powerful." Critique of Anthropology. Available open access here.
Archer, Matthew. (2021). "How to govern a sustainable supply chains: Standards, standardizers and the political ecology of (in)advertence." Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. (.pdf)
Archer, Matthew. (2021). "Imagining Impact in Global Supply Chains: Sustainability Standards and the Production of Surveillable Space." Surveillance & Society. Available open access here.
Calvão, Filipe and Matthew Archer. (2021). "Digital Extraction: Blockchain Traceability in Mineral Supply Chains." Political Geography. Available open access here.
Archer, Matthew. (2020). "Navigating the Sustainability Landscape: Impact Pathways and the Sustainability Ethic." Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. Available open access here.