@InCollection{Lippert2025Lakoma,
  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},
}

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.

@InCollection{MewesLippert2024Caring,
  author           = {Mewes, Julie Sascia and Lippert, Ingmar},
  booktitle        = {Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas in Social Science Interventions: Careful Engagements in Healthcare, Museums, Design and Beyond},
  publisher        = {Springer},
  title            = {Caring for Methods: 'Care-Ful Method Practice' through Methodography},
  year             = {2024},
  editor           = {Doris Lydahl and Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen},
  pages            = {171--186},
  abstract         = {Methods matter. We argue for methodography as a genre of care-ful interrogation of method practice. We systematically read three STS texts concerned with ethnographic methods published during the past decade and (meta)analyse how these texts account for their ethnographic encounters and these encounters’ frictions. Methodographic analysis contributes to ‘care-ful research’ in STS by analysing how, when and towards whom the cases textually perform care. With methodical sensibilities towards ‘care-ful method practice’ we suggest to diversify the conversation about ‘care’ that has been predominantly attended to as an empiric and/or theory-generating analytic notion in care studies in STS. We argue that methodography provides a flexible, infrastructure-building, analytical tool with the potential of adding another, method-focused layer of care.

With this chapter’s meta-methodographic analysis, we contribute to a better understanding about how STS researchers’ texts achieve care through and for methods, for research questions and agendas, as well as for their authors as researchers and their collaborators. We hope to bring empirical attention to the infrastructures that STS researchers mobilise to gather, process and analyse data or materials, and their ecologies of more or less careful practices. At the same time, we theorise what kinds of effects these practices enact, what the empirical is doing in these ecologies and speculate how methodographic reflections can ground more or differently careful and caring encounters with our collaborators in future.},
  doi              = {10.1007/978-3-031-44119-6_12},
  modificationdate = {2025-03-27T00:25:02},
  url_osf          = {https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/4hz8e},
}

Methods matter. We argue for methodography as a genre of care-ful interrogation of method practice. We systematically read three STS texts concerned with ethnographic methods published during the past decade and (meta)analyse how these texts account for their ethnographic encounters and these encounters’ frictions. Methodographic analysis contributes to ‘care-ful research’ in STS by analysing how, when and towards whom the cases textually perform care. With methodical sensibilities towards ‘care-ful method practice’ we suggest to diversify the conversation about ‘care’ that has been predominantly attended to as an empiric and/or theory-generating analytic notion in care studies in STS. We argue that methodography provides a flexible, infrastructure-building, analytical tool with the potential of adding another, method-focused layer of care. With this chapter’s meta-methodographic analysis, we contribute to a better understanding about how STS researchers’ texts achieve care through and for methods, for research questions and agendas, as well as for their authors as researchers and their collaborators. We hope to bring empirical attention to the infrastructures that STS researchers mobilise to gather, process and analyse data or materials, and their ecologies of more or less careful practices. At the same time, we theorise what kinds of effects these practices enact, what the empirical is doing in these ecologies and speculate how methodographic reflections can ground more or differently careful and caring encounters with our collaborators in future.

@InCollection{Lippert2023NumbersCtrl,
  author           = {Lippert, Ingmar},
  booktitle        = {Reclaiming Technology: a poetic-scientific vocabulary},
  publisher        = {Ctrl+Alt+Delete Books},
  title            = {Numbers},
  year             = {2023},
  chapter          = {32},
  editor           = {James Maguire and Brit Ross Winthereik},
  note             = {invited contribution},
  pages            = {156-159},
  abstract         = {Numbers are ubiquitary, it is expected we know them. Some hate, others love them. Numbers are involved in everyday practices like shopping, measuring length, counting unread emails. Numbers, too, figure in management, governance, in science, engineering, medicine and many other private and public sector fields that employ technoscience. How comes numbers are so widespread? Are all these numbers similar enough, in kind, for us to treat them similarly? Sociology, Anthropology, History, Human Geography as well as Science and Technology Studies have shown that numbers are employed and produced in very different ways – and that neither mathematics not data science occupy an epistemically privileged position for understanding numbers.},
  creationdate     = {2023-08-20T16:54:28},
  doi              = {10/jp4k},
  modificationdate = {2023-08-20T17:04:22},
  url_publisher    = {https://cadb.dk/product/reclaiming-technology-a-poetic-scientific-vocabulary-kopier/?lang=en},
}

Numbers are ubiquitary, it is expected we know them. Some hate, others love them. Numbers are involved in everyday practices like shopping, measuring length, counting unread emails. Numbers, too, figure in management, governance, in science, engineering, medicine and many other private and public sector fields that employ technoscience. How comes numbers are so widespread? Are all these numbers similar enough, in kind, for us to treat them similarly? Sociology, Anthropology, History, Human Geography as well as Science and Technology Studies have shown that numbers are employed and produced in very different ways – and that neither mathematics not data science occupy an epistemically privileged position for understanding numbers.

@InCollection{ElSherbiniLippert2023Energy,
  author           = {Ahmed Noaman {El Sherbini} and Lippert, Ingmar},
  booktitle        = {Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South},
  publisher        = {Routledge},
  title            = {From Energy Poverty to Vulnerability: A Discourse Analysis of the European Union's National Energy and Climate Plans},
  year             = {2023},
  address          = {London},
  editor           = {Paola Velasco Herrejón and Breffní Lennon and Niall Dunphy},
  isbn             = {9781003408536},
  series           = {Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies},
  abstract         = {Energy Poverty (EP) is a phenomenon that has increasingly attracted attention since 1975. Accordingly, literature on the phenomenon has been accumulating, leading to numerous ways in which EP is understood. Yet, literature still indicates that defining EP remains elusive. Some technical research tends to mono-dimensionally define EP, allowing generalisation across administrative-spatial contexts. Studies of EP policy, however, claim that ambiguity, complexity, and multidimensionality are inherent characteristics of EP. Any mono-dimensional approach that ignores this “multidimensionality” is unlikely to reliably measure EP in different contexts. This chapter provides an empirical analysis of the European Union (EU) member states' National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs). The analysis explores whether the NECPs' representations of EP also reflect the characteristics of ambiguity, complexity, and multidimensionality. We analyse our data with a Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) version of discourse analysis. We argue that these characteristics are deeply rooted in the current EU policy discourse on EP. To engage with these characteristics constructively and build upon call to “rethink theorisation” of EP, we reconstruct the phenomenon in terms of vulnerability.},
  creationdate     = {2022-12-16T21:13:27},
  doi              = {10/mbb9},
  modificationdate = {2024-01-26T16:45:42},
}

Energy Poverty (EP) is a phenomenon that has increasingly attracted attention since 1975. Accordingly, literature on the phenomenon has been accumulating, leading to numerous ways in which EP is understood. Yet, literature still indicates that defining EP remains elusive. Some technical research tends to mono-dimensionally define EP, allowing generalisation across administrative-spatial contexts. Studies of EP policy, however, claim that ambiguity, complexity, and multidimensionality are inherent characteristics of EP. Any mono-dimensional approach that ignores this “multidimensionality” is unlikely to reliably measure EP in different contexts. This chapter provides an empirical analysis of the European Union (EU) member states' National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs). The analysis explores whether the NECPs' representations of EP also reflect the characteristics of ambiguity, complexity, and multidimensionality. We analyse our data with a Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) version of discourse analysis. We argue that these characteristics are deeply rooted in the current EU policy discourse on EP. To engage with these characteristics constructively and build upon call to “rethink theorisation” of EP, we reconstruct the phenomenon in terms of vulnerability.

@InCollection{Lippert.I:2022Promissory,
  author           = {Lippert, Ingmar},
  booktitle        = {Elgar Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics},
  publisher        = {Edward Elgar},
  title            = {Digitalisation as promissory infrastructure for sustainability},
  year             = {2022},
  chapter          = {42},
  editor           = {Luigi Pellizzoni and Emanuele Leonardi and Viviana Asara},
  note             = {invited contribution},
  pages            = {540-553},
  abstract         = {Supposedly, digitalisation offers new capacities and directions for environmental politics and governance. This chapter critically introduces the discursive trajectories of three 'developments', sustainable development, digitalisation and capitalist acceleration. Analytically, I approach these trajectories with the sociology of promises, environmental sociology and science and technology studies. To illustrate how subjects and environments are differently (con)figured at the intersection of these trajectories, I attend to two contexts and ask for each how subjects and environments are (con)figured. The contexts are global discourses and local dispositifs of smart cities and of carbon accounting/datafication. The chapter concludes in terms of digitalisation as promissory infrastructural relations that cut across these contexts. This raises avenues for critical environmental politics studies that are sensitive to discourses and dispositifs of greening in relation to recent innovations in analytics that recognise both epistemic/epistemological and ontic/ontological politics. With such attention, interesting problematisations and questions about transformative and conservative potentials emerge.},
  doi              = {10/jp4k},
  modificationdate = {2023-08-20T17:04:09},
  url_preprint     = {https://doi.org/10/fn2t},
  url_publisher    = {https://doi.org/10/jp4k},
}

Supposedly, digitalisation offers new capacities and directions for environmental politics and governance. This chapter critically introduces the discursive trajectories of three 'developments', sustainable development, digitalisation and capitalist acceleration. Analytically, I approach these trajectories with the sociology of promises, environmental sociology and science and technology studies. To illustrate how subjects and environments are differently (con)figured at the intersection of these trajectories, I attend to two contexts and ask for each how subjects and environments are (con)figured. The contexts are global discourses and local dispositifs of smart cities and of carbon accounting/datafication. The chapter concludes in terms of digitalisation as promissory infrastructural relations that cut across these contexts. This raises avenues for critical environmental politics studies that are sensitive to discourses and dispositifs of greening in relation to recent innovations in analytics that recognise both epistemic/epistemological and ontic/ontological politics. With such attention, interesting problematisations and questions about transformative and conservative potentials emerge.

@InCollection{Lippert2020InWithOfSTS,
  author           = {Lippert, Ingmar},
  booktitle        = {Wie forschen mit den 'Science and Technology Studies'? Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven},
  publisher        = {Transcript Verlag},
  title            = {In, with and of STS},
  year             = {2020},
  editor           = {Astrid Wiedmann and Katherin Wagenknecht and Philipp Goll and Andreas Wagenknecht},
  isbn             = {978-3-8376-4379-4},
  pages            = {301--318},
  series           = {Locating Media/Situierte Medien},
  abstract         = {How do we narrate about how we ‘use’ STS for social scientific research? How do we study STS research practices? Do all research practices that involve STS concepts contribute to STS? This text constitutes the afterword to an edited volume that contributes to providing answers in the borderlands of these questions. The af­terword problematises how we perform reflexivity, how we are (not) analysing STS's own research practices, and how we tell simultaneous stories of what STS as a field is or might be. With this problematisation, this essay argues for a praxeography of STS, involving methodographic, conceptographic and cartographic analyses.},
  doi              = {10/fdws},
  ean              = {9783837643794},
  location         = {Bielefeld},
  modificationdate = {2024-06-23T21:52:30},
  url_publisher    = {https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4379-4/},
}

How do we narrate about how we ‘use’ STS for social scientific research? How do we study STS research practices? Do all research practices that involve STS concepts contribute to STS? This text constitutes the afterword to an edited volume that contributes to providing answers in the borderlands of these questions. The af­terword problematises how we perform reflexivity, how we are (not) analysing STS's own research practices, and how we tell simultaneous stories of what STS as a field is or might be. With this problematisation, this essay argues for a praxeography of STS, involving methodographic, conceptographic and cartographic analyses.

@InCollection{Lippert2017Socialemissions?Corporatecarbonfootprintingastechno-politicalpractice,
  author           = {Ingmar Lippert},
  booktitle        = {The Carbon Fix},
  publisher        = {Routledge},
  title            = {Corporate Carbon Footprinting as Techno-Political Practice},
  year             = {2017},
  chapter          = {6},
  editor           = {Shirley Fiske and Stephanie Paladino},
  isbn             = {978-1-61132-333-7},
  pages            = {107--118},
  abstract         = {Attempting to tackle climate change with market solutions hinges on the existence of emissions. We know much about the politics of undoing emissions via offsets (e.g., Böhm and Dabhi 2009). But where do emissions come from? How are they done? Carbon footprinting seems to be the simple answer. Is this merely a technical matter? In this chapter I explore how emissions come into being; carbon accounting emerges as techno-political practice, fraught with non-transparency.},
  booksubtitle     = {Forest Carbon, Social Justice, and Environmental Governance},
  location         = {New York, London},
  modificationdate = {2024-01-26T14:26:18},
  url_academia.edu = {https://www.academia.edu/28540367/},
  url_publisher    = {https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315474014/chapters/10.4324/9781315474014-18},
}

Attempting to tackle climate change with market solutions hinges on the existence of emissions. We know much about the politics of undoing emissions via offsets (e.g., Böhm and Dabhi 2009). But where do emissions come from? How are they done? Carbon footprinting seems to be the simple answer. Is this merely a technical matter? In this chapter I explore how emissions come into being; carbon accounting emerges as techno-political practice, fraught with non-transparency.

@InCollection{Lippert:2013Not,
  author           = {Ingmar Lippert},
  booktitle        = {Yearbook 2012 of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society},
  publisher        = {Profil},
  title            = {Latour's Gaia -- Not down to Earth?},
  year             = {2014},
  editor           = {Arno Bamm\'{e} and G\"{u}nter Getzinger and Thomas Berger},
  pages            = {91--111},
  abstract         = {In a recent instantiation by Bruno Latour of how STS can engage with matters of concern, he conceptualised a changing relationship by humans with earth. For Latour, scientists' notion ‘anthropocene’ illustrates that humans accept that their industrial activities are not merely causing some surface environmental problems but that they establish a geological force. He proposes: inside each of us, we have to struggle for properly engaging with Gaia (Lovelock). Questioning his individualist take, this paper reviews STS studies on how humans and societies enact the imagery of ‘being able to manage’ (environments). We find conflict. I argue, studying the doing of so-called environmental management shows that by this activity environments are not merely known, but also enacted. This move implies that competing of enactments of the subjection of environments to management are possible. Consequently, the performative qualities of environmental management emerge as a fundamentally politically and ethically relevant object of study.},
  doi              = {10/bbnb},
  location         = {Wien and M\"{u}nchen},
  modificationdate = {2024-01-26T14:26:12},
  subtitle         = {Social Studies of Environmental Management for Grounded Understandings of the Politics of Human-Nature Relationships},
}

In a recent instantiation by Bruno Latour of how STS can engage with matters of concern, he conceptualised a changing relationship by humans with earth. For Latour, scientists' notion ‘anthropocene’ illustrates that humans accept that their industrial activities are not merely causing some surface environmental problems but that they establish a geological force. He proposes: inside each of us, we have to struggle for properly engaging with Gaia (Lovelock). Questioning his individualist take, this paper reviews STS studies on how humans and societies enact the imagery of ‘being able to manage’ (environments). We find conflict. I argue, studying the doing of so-called environmental management shows that by this activity environments are not merely known, but also enacted. This move implies that competing of enactments of the subjection of environments to management are possible. Consequently, the performative qualities of environmental management emerge as a fundamentally politically and ethically relevant object of study.

@InCollection{Lippert:2010,
  author           = {Ingmar Lippert},
  booktitle        = {{Implementing Environmental and Resource Management}},
  publisher        = {Springer},
  title            = {Sustaining Waste -- Sociological Perspectives on Recycling a Hybrid Object},
  year             = {2011},
  address          = {Heidelberg},
  chapter          = {22},
  editor           = {Schmidt, M. and Onyango, V. and Palekhov, D.},
  pages            = {283--306},
  abstract         = {Recycling is a concept, normally, taken-for-granted within academic approaches to environmental management. The science of recycling usually addresses recycling as an activity which needs optimising, rather than questioning. My take on recycling differs from the standard one: I focus on possibilities to conceptualise an agent who was responsible for implementing a recycling scheme for her organisation. By way of drawing on sociological theories (especially Bourdieu's theory of practice and Actor-network theory) I point to significant problems in approaching sustainability. The empirical data consists of ethnographic field work which illustrates societal implications for thinking about transforming organisations towards sustainable conduct: By constructing a recycling scheme the waste manager of the organisation ensures that the organisation does not move towards reducing or altering resource consumption. Rather, she stabilises an unsustainable trajectory and inhibits societal transformation even beyond her organisation. Thus, sociological theory allows problematising and better grasping the societal implications and limits of environmental management.},
  doi              = {10/dvw8cr},
  keywords         = {ecological modernisation, recycling, environmental management, agency},
  modificationdate = {2024-01-26T14:26:14},
  url_academia.edu = {https://www.academia.edu/1064084/},
}

Recycling is a concept, normally, taken-for-granted within academic approaches to environmental management. The science of recycling usually addresses recycling as an activity which needs optimising, rather than questioning. My take on recycling differs from the standard one: I focus on possibilities to conceptualise an agent who was responsible for implementing a recycling scheme for her organisation. By way of drawing on sociological theories (especially Bourdieu's theory of practice and Actor-network theory) I point to significant problems in approaching sustainability. The empirical data consists of ethnographic field work which illustrates societal implications for thinking about transforming organisations towards sustainable conduct: By constructing a recycling scheme the waste manager of the organisation ensures that the organisation does not move towards reducing or altering resource consumption. Rather, she stabilises an unsustainable trajectory and inhibits societal transformation even beyond her organisation. Thus, sociological theory allows problematising and better grasping the societal implications and limits of environmental management.

@InCollection{Lippert:2010b,
  author           = {Ingmar Lippert},
  booktitle        = {Implementing Environmental and Resource Management},
  publisher        = {Springer},
  title            = {Knowledge for Corporate Energy Management -- Structural Contradictions and Hope for Change?},
  year             = {2011},
  address          = {Heidelberg},
  chapter          = {18},
  editor           = {Schmidt, M. and Onyango, V. and Palekhov, D.},
  pages            = {211--228},
  abstract         = {At the latest since the global oil crises between 1970 and 1980 "energy" has been continuously a topic in Western discourses of environmental and technology politics. Potential for innovation in the private sector is considered significant to put into practice environmental protection goals. Implicit to the aims of energy efficiency and to safe energy are the presence of actors who support corporations in reaching these aims. These agents of ecological modernisation, i.e. environmental managers, and their practices have rarely been scrutinised. This paper, therefore, aims to make them the object of enquiry -- approached from a Science and Technology Studies perspective. This article studies the knowledge politics implications of techno-economic decision-making by such an actor within the energy management at a site of a multinational corporation. Based on ethnographic research at the site the article focuses on an instance of a management tool, corporate suggestion schemes, to mobilise workers' ideas of improving the environmental performance. With this it becomes possible to attend to how corporate agents of ecological modernisation deal with the issue "energy". Prior research focused on other aspects, but not on the actor. We find that the manager uses specific forms of knowledge -- adequate to the discourse of ecological modernisation -- while, however, sidelining alternative forms. Thus, the latter are lost to sustainable development. We conclude, that the actors' knowledge practice renders corporate energy management unsustainable. To conceptualise a way out of this dilemma the article draws on theories of grounded utopias.},
  doi              = {10/fcf9d8},
  keywords         = {ecological modernisation, knowledge management, knowledge infrastructure, energy management, corporate environmental management},
  modificationdate = {2024-01-26T14:26:16},
  url_academia.edu = {https://www.academia.edu/1064091/},
}

At the latest since the global oil crises between 1970 and 1980 "energy" has been continuously a topic in Western discourses of environmental and technology politics. Potential for innovation in the private sector is considered significant to put into practice environmental protection goals. Implicit to the aims of energy efficiency and to safe energy are the presence of actors who support corporations in reaching these aims. These agents of ecological modernisation, i.e. environmental managers, and their practices have rarely been scrutinised. This paper, therefore, aims to make them the object of enquiry – approached from a Science and Technology Studies perspective. This article studies the knowledge politics implications of techno-economic decision-making by such an actor within the energy management at a site of a multinational corporation. Based on ethnographic research at the site the article focuses on an instance of a management tool, corporate suggestion schemes, to mobilise workers' ideas of improving the environmental performance. With this it becomes possible to attend to how corporate agents of ecological modernisation deal with the issue "energy". Prior research focused on other aspects, but not on the actor. We find that the manager uses specific forms of knowledge – adequate to the discourse of ecological modernisation – while, however, sidelining alternative forms. Thus, the latter are lost to sustainable development. We conclude, that the actors' knowledge practice renders corporate energy management unsustainable. To conceptualise a way out of this dilemma the article draws on theories of grounded utopias.

@InCollection{Lippert:2010Yearbook-2009,
  author           = {Ingmar Lippert},
  booktitle        = {Yearbook 2009 of the {Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society}},
  publisher        = {Profil},
  title            = {Disposed to Unsustainability? {E}cological Modernisation as a Techno-Science Enterprise with Conflicting Normative Orientations},
  year             = {2010},
  address          = {M{\"u}nchen},
  editor           = {Arno Bamm{\'e} and G{\"u}nter Getzinger and Bernhard Wieser},
  pages            = {275--290},
  abstract         = {In the 1970s widespread awareness of a ‘global environmental crisis’ began to emerge in Western societies. Specific staff were employed to deal with environmental problems. While they are supposed to manage the greening of their organisations, committed to sustainable development, research did not study these agents in their own right. By drawing on two ethnographic cases this paper questions whether their dispositions are likely to help in approaching sustainability. The paper then takes up Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and field, a critical realist account of normativity and ANT’s emphasis of heterogeneity to argue that the agents have conflicting normative dispositions.},
  doi              = {10/bbm9},
  keywords         = {ecological modernisation, unsustainability, agency, environmental sociology},
  modificationdate = {2024-01-26T14:26:10},
}

In the 1970s widespread awareness of a ‘global environmental crisis’ began to emerge in Western societies. Specific staff were employed to deal with environmental problems. While they are supposed to manage the greening of their organisations, committed to sustainable development, research did not study these agents in their own right. By drawing on two ethnographic cases this paper questions whether their dispositions are likely to help in approaching sustainability. The paper then takes up Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and field, a critical realist account of normativity and ANT’s emphasis of heterogeneity to argue that the agents have conflicting normative dispositions.

@InCollection{Wolf2005,
  author           = {Stephan Wolf and Ingmar Lippert},
  booktitle        = {Umweltmanagement an Hochschulen: Nachhaltigkeitsperspektiven},
  publisher        = {Peter Lang Verlag},
  title            = {Hochschulen auf dem Weg zur Nachhaltigkeit: M{\"o}glichkeiten studentischer Partizipation in Umweltmanagementsystemen},
  year             = {2005},
  address          = {Frankfurt am Main},
  chapter          = {9},
  editor           = {{Walter Leal} Filho and Bernd Delakowitz},
  pages            = {143--162},
  abstract         = {Wir entwickeln eine kritische studentische Perspektive auf Nachhaltigkeitspolitik an Hochschulen. Dabei betrachten wir den reduzierenden Fokus hochschulischer Nachhaltigkeistarbeit auf Umweltmanagementsysteme im Verhältnis auf die Potentiale der Hinterfragung von Lehre und Forschung aus der Perspektive des Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurses. Für einen Prozess der nachhaltigen Hochschulentwicklung erscheint als wesentlich, Studium, hochschulpolitische Engagementmöglichkeiten sowie Forschung selbst zum Objekt von Nachhaltigkeitsdiskussionen in den Vordergrund zu stellen.},
  doi              = {10/bqvb},
  modificationdate = {2024-01-26T14:26:03},
  origlanguage     = {German},
  usere            = {Higher Education Institutions on Their Way to Sustainability: Possibilities for Student Participation in Environmental Management Systems},
}

Wir entwickeln eine kritische studentische Perspektive auf Nachhaltigkeitspolitik an Hochschulen. Dabei betrachten wir den reduzierenden Fokus hochschulischer Nachhaltigkeistarbeit auf Umweltmanagementsysteme im Verhältnis auf die Potentiale der Hinterfragung von Lehre und Forschung aus der Perspektive des Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurses. Für einen Prozess der nachhaltigen Hochschulentwicklung erscheint als wesentlich, Studium, hochschulpolitische Engagementmöglichkeiten sowie Forschung selbst zum Objekt von Nachhaltigkeitsdiskussionen in den Vordergrund zu stellen.