Dr. Kari Dahlgren is a Research Fellow in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab. Kari is a social anthropologist and ethnographer interested in the social and ethical aspects of energy production and consumption in Australia.

Her work is situated at the intersection of economic and environmental anthropology, with a particular interest in the anthropology of energy, climate change, and transition. 

In the context of increasing questions about the future of energy, Kari’s research speaks to the possibilities and limitations of imagining and crafting futures, as well as the ethical implications of change.

She also makes theoretical contributions to the Anthropocene as a lived condition of precarity through ethnography of the social complexities and political concerns underlying the energy transition.