Publications
Coal’s Final Void
Extracted Futures and the Everyday Making of the Climate Crisis
Routledge, 2025
Based on two years of participant observation in Australian coal mining communities, including with coal miners and pro-coal lobbyists, the book explores climate change as an ethical problem entangled with livelihoods, identities and futures.
Journal articles
- 2026Consumption studies in the global south: A conversation among scholarsAriztia, T., Sahakian, M., Akçaoğlu, A., Barbosa, L., Dahlgren, K., Katz-Gerro, T., et al. Consumption and Society, 5(1), 97–118.
- 2025“We’re already experts in school, right?”: Supporting students’ construction of future school scenariosSelwyn, N., Kaviani, F., Strengers, Y., Dahlgren, K., Cumbo, B. & Wagner, M. Futures, 166, 103541.
- 2025“You can’t really learn the future”: Student perspectives of futures education in schoolsSelwyn, N., Kaviani, F., Strengers, Y., Dahlgren, K., Cumbo, B. & Wagner, M. Research in Education.
- 2025Future schools and the energy implications of AI in education: A review of scenarios and method for engaging young people in futures thinkingKaviani, F., Selwyn, N., Strengers, Y., Dahlgren, K., Cumbo, B. & Wagner, M. Policy Futures in Education, 23(6), 1067–1085.
- 2025Considerations for moving from collaboration to interventionDahlgren, K. Dialogues on Digital Society. (Commentary)
- 2025Automation in electric vehicle futuresPink, S., Korsmeyer, H., Dahlgren, K. & Strengers, Y. Mobilities, 20(2), 310–328.
- 2024Bringing energy futures to life: Anticipatory household storylines as possible energy futuresDahlgren, K., Kaviani, F., Strengers, Y., Pink, S. & Korsmeyer, H. Futures, 103347.
- 2023Converging old and new carbon frontiers in Northern AustraliaNeale, T., Dahlgren, K., Howey, K. & Kearnes, M. Area.
- 2023Building plausible scenarios for future living: Intervening in energy forecasting using household ethnography and foresightKaviani, F., Strengers, Y., Dahlgren, K., Korsmeyer, H. & Pink, S. Energy Research & Social Science, 106, 103315.
- 2023Design anthropological foresighting: Reframing automated futuresPink, S., Strengers, Y., Dahlgren, K. & Korsmeyer, H. Futures, 154, 103275.
- 2023Smart home masculinitiesPink, S., Strengers, Y., Martin, R. & Dahlgren, K. Australian Feminist Studies, 1–17.
- 2023Automated and absent: How people and households are accounted for in industry energy scenariosKaviani, F., Strengers, Y., Dahlgren, K. & Korsmeyer, H. Energy Research & Social Science, 102, 103191.
- 2022The Final Voids: The ambiguity of emptiness in Australian coal mine rehabilitationDahlgren, K. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(2), 537–555.
- 2022Energy, emerging technology and gender in homesStrengers, Y., Gram-Hanssen, K., Dahlgren, K. & Kryger Aagaard, L. Buildings and Cities, 3(1).
- 2022Emerging technologies' impacts on 'man caves' and their energy demandStrengers, Y., Dahlgren, K. & Nicholls, L. Buildings and Cities, 3(1).
- 2022Co-presence and contingency: Comics as a methodological innovation in researching automated futuresDahlgren, K., Pink, S., Strengers, Y. & Nicholls, L. Qualitative Inquiry, 28(7), 767–780.
- 2022Digital technology and energy imaginaries of future home life: Comic-strip scenarios as a method to disrupt energy industry futuresStrengers, Y., Dahlgren, K., Pink, S., Nicholls, L. & Sadowski, J. Energy Research & Social Science, 84.
- 2021Personalization and the Smart Home: Questioning techno-hedonist imaginariesDahlgren, K., Pink, S., Strengers, Y., Nicholls, L. & Sadowski, J. Convergence, 27(5), 1155–1169.
- 2021The moral case for coal: The ethics of complicity with and amongst Australian pro-coal lobbyistsDahlgren, K. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 32(1), 19–32.
- 2019Blaming in the boom and bust: Greed accusations in an Australian mining townDahlgren, K. Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 37(2), 90–109.
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Book chapters and reviews
- 2022Anticipatory infrastructures, emerging technologies and visions of energy futuresPink, S., Dahlgren, K., Strengers, Y. & Nicholls, L. In Valkonen, J. et al. (eds), Infrastructural Being: A Naturecultural Approach, Palgrave Macmillan.
- 2022Everyday futures, spaces and mobilitiesPink, S., Ellsworth-Krebs, K., Köhne, M., Ortar, N., Dueholm Rasch, E. & Dahlgren, K. In Abram, S. et al. (eds), Energy Futures, De Gruyter.
- 2020Review of David McDermott Hughes, Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and ComplicityDahlgren, K. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 26(3), 667–669. (Book review)
- 2019Transitional justice, gender-based violence, and women's rightsFanneron, E., Sahle, E. & Dahlgren, K. In Sahle, E. (ed), Human Rights in Africa: Contemporary Debates and Struggles, Palgrave Macmillan.
- 2015African literature as border thinking: Micere Mugo, Dennis Brutus, Sembene Ousmane, and Ngugi wa Thiong’oDahlgren, K. In Sahle, E. (ed), Globalization and Socio-Cultural Processes in Contemporary Africa, Palgrave Macmillan.
Reports
- 2026Scenarios for Future Living: Foresights for Future Australian Home Life
- 2026Scenarios for Future Living: Emerging Technology Innovation and Development
- 2025Scenarios for Future Living: Household and Home Business Research: Emerging Lifestyles, Preferences and Practices
- 2024Household Energy Glossary
- 2023Future Home Demand: Anticipating Energy and Everyday Life Trends across Three Victorian Networks
- 2023Digital Energy Futures: Scenarios for Future Living
- 2022Just Transitions in Australia: Moving Towards Low Carbon Lives Across Policy, Industry and Practice
- 2022Digital Energy Futures: Foresights for Future Living
- 2021Digital Energy Futures: Future Home Life
- 2021Digital Energy Futures: Demand Management Opportunities
- 2021Consumer Experiences Following Energy Market Reforms in Victoria
- 2020Digital Energy Futures: Review of Industry Trends, Visions, and Scenarios for the Home
- 2020Experiences and Perceptions of Urban Sensing in Melbourne