La#oma’s pre- and post-­carbon landscape. Lippert, I. In Dalsgaard, S., Lautrup, A., Schyberg, K. A., & Lippert, I., editors, Cultural Complexity of Carbon: Green Transformations in Contemporary Society, 7, pages 154–184. Routledge, 2025.
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Carbon dioxide emissions are generated, inter alia, by burning fossil fuels. Lignite, otherwise known as brown coal, is one of the dirtiest fuels, and in many places, it has left ruined and scarred landscapes behind. This chapter zooms in on the landscape, the village-scape, of a place that was disappeared, devastated and vanished to make space for such mining. The village in question has over the years come with a number of names, Lakoma, Łakoma and Lacoma, resonating with the diverse imaginaries of the village that have shifted over time and with its different relationships to lignite. Addressing this complex of village imaginaries as “La#oma”, the chapter asks what La#omas are and how these come to be. This question demands a mode of storying within a landscape of transformations that gives voice to contestation and non-coherence, conflict and non-commensurability, between natures, cultures and carbon. These stories are, however, not merely issues of words but also of materiality. Stories are materially infrastructure and con-figured. The analytics behind the storying thus draw on Science and Technology Studies (STS), especially the analytics of ont*-politics, the politics of enacting realities ontologically (Mol and Verran), ontically (Verran) and onto-epistemically (Barad). Centrally, different forms of storying variously construct the place(s) La#oma as one of carbon mining, a place against carbon mining, a place of post-carbon mining and as places for and against the green transformation. In conclusion, these multiple histories and realities of the village are not (yet) well used to power an emancipatory energy transition.
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  author           = {Ingmar Lippert},
  booktitle        = {Cultural Complexity of Carbon: Green Transformations in Contemporary Society},
  publisher        = {Routledge},
  title            = {La#oma’s pre- and post-­carbon landscape},
  year             = {2025},
  chapter          = {7},
  editor           = {Dalsgaard, Steffen and Lautrup, Andy and Schyberg, Katinka A. and Lippert, Ingmar},
  pages            = {154--184},
  abstract         = {Carbon dioxide emissions are generated, inter alia, by burning fossil fuels. Lignite, otherwise known as brown coal, is one of the dirtiest fuels, and in many places, it has left ruined and scarred landscapes behind. This chapter zooms in on the landscape, the village-scape, of a place that was disappeared, devastated and vanished to make space for such mining. The village in question has over the years come with a number of names, Lakoma, Łakoma and Lacoma, resonating with the diverse imaginaries of the village that have shifted over time and with its different relationships to lignite. Addressing this complex of village imaginaries as “La#oma”, the chapter asks what La#omas are and how these come to be. This question demands a mode of storying within a landscape of transformations that gives voice to contestation and non-coherence, conflict and non-commensurability, between natures, cultures and carbon. These stories are, however, not merely issues of words but also of materiality. Stories are materially infrastructure and con-figured. The analytics behind the storying thus draw on Science and Technology Studies (STS), especially the analytics of ont*-politics, the politics of enacting realities ontologically (Mol and Verran), ontically (Verran) and onto-epistemically (Barad). Centrally, different forms of storying variously construct the place(s) La#oma as one of carbon mining, a place against carbon mining, a place of post-carbon mining and as places for and against the green transformation. In conclusion, these multiple histories and realities of the village are not (yet) well used to power an emancipatory energy transition.},
  doi              = {10.4324/9781003478669-8},
  modificationdate = {2025-03-27T01:17:45},
  subtitle         = {The ont*-politics of a vanished village},
}

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