Alf Hornborg

Alf Hornborg

Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and Professor of Human Ecology at Lund University. His research focuses on theorizing the cultural and political dimensions of human-environmental relations in different societies in space and time. His books include The Power of the Machine; Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange; Global Magic; and Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene. He has also co-edited several collections at the intersection of anthropology, environmental history, political ecology, and ecological economics, including Rethinking Environmental History, The World System and the Earth System, and Ecology and Power. He holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Uppsala.

GTI Contributions
Whose Technology?
GTI Forum
Whose Technology?
Contribution to GTI Forum Technology and the Future
February 2022

Rethink Money First
GTI Forum
Rethink Money First
November 2020

Roundtable contribution on Money - Alf Hornborg
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable On Money
An exchange on the essay Money for the People
August 2017
Money itself may not be the problem, but general-purpose money that treats all value as commensurable certainly is.