@phdthesis{Lippert, author = {Lippert, Ingmar}, title = {Enacting Environments: An Ethnography of the Digitalisation and Naturalisation of Emissions}, address = {Augburg}, doi = {10/6vh}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-21997}, pages = {698}, abstract = {Capitalism manages to enact environments in the midst of its centres by means of keeping other environments out. The fundamental practice which allows for this contradictory and generative move is that capitalist agents enact environments. Capitalism does not require a clear, neat, distinct, singular environment. Multiple, fluid, dynamic environments allow far better the tactical and strategical project of staging capitalism as having its destructive environmental impacts in control. That control is a decisive fiction sustaining the unsustainable. These theses are the result of an ethnography, reported in this book, that scrutinised corporate carbon accounting practices as a site at which we are able to simultaneously explore two significant issues for the management of environments: on the one hand studying practices of corporate environmental accounting allows us to engage with agents' practical work reality by which capitalism seeks to render itself 'green' and 'sustainable'; on the other hand the focus on precisely how accountants achieve taking carbon into account is able to sharpen our understanding of how quantifying practices perform in a non-substantial area of business, such as engaging with climate change. In the received view, corporate carbon accounting is about providing the facts and figures about the emissions which a company produces. Accounting for these emissions is supposedly a condition to take carbon into account - economists would call this process internalisation. The discourse which assumes that 'if only capitalist society is able to internalise its environmental problems' (like carbon emissions which are identified as the culprit of global warming and, in consequence, climate change) 'then capitalist society will be able to solve environmental crises' - this discourse is called ecological modernisation. Within environmental sociology arguments over whether that discourse is actually materially reflected abound. Ecological modernisation theory proposes that capitalist organisations do get green(er). In the midst of debate, little attention, if at all, has been paid to those agents who are, supposedly, implementing the programmes of ecological modernisation, such as environmental management systems (EMS) and carbon accounting. This study contributes to understanding how capitalism organises its relation to environments by means of scrutinising the work practices of these agents. To conduct that study, I have carefully avoided to make assumptions about whether a particular organisation would be conducting greenwash. Much rather, the intentionally open question was: what do agents of ecological modernisation do and how do they achieve it? With this orientation, this study turned to sociological theory and methodology which does not presume any overarching structure as determining agents. Instead, by means of methodological triangulation between ethnomethodology, actor-network theory (ANT) and Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of field and habitus, this study reconstructs by which specific practices and discursive action agents manage to make greening more central to capitalism. The decisive finding is that while agents do manage to bring environmental data into the heart of the corporation - the centre of capitalism - what that data is about (the things this data is related and presumably representing, the material hinterland of that data) is simultaneously distanced from the corporate core. This study, thus, shows how capitalism manages to enact a epicentral movement of 'environment' and, in parallel, to ensure that environmental issues and concerns do not challenge orinterfere in that centre. It manages by means of keeping the largest degrees of environments out. The overarching thesis of this study is, thus, that environments, such as carbon, are not existing - for all practical purposes of corporate agents - out-there but, rather, they are carefully crafted and enacted into corporate, social and, eventually, economic reality. Environments are enacted. The plural matters. Within the organisational practices of capitalism, agents may imagine to refer to 'the' environment. Their everyday practices of taking environments into account, however, relate to specific materials, such as spreadsheets, pieces of papers, flip-charts. Environments exist through these multiple materials, in multiple versions; ontologically, thus they do not exist in the singular but they are staged as such. If the carbon emission fact of a company is established, that fact may well be out-dated a few micro-seconds or years later; it may differ several kilometres off or in a neighbouring storage unit in a computer. Any global fact is enacted in particular located situations. Emissions facts are not stable but fluid, flowing in and between myriads of situations. They are hold together by means of humans' material-discursive performances. And they shift with agents' practices just like with the dynamics in-built into materials, like a database. These processes produce artefacts, versions of environments. And these versions matter. What a society is dealing with when encountering a corporate emission fact is not Nature but a version of an environment. Next year, the same fact (as in, signifying the same imagined out-there) may have changed. Vis-{\`a}-vis Science and Technology Studies (STS), my analysis of the effects of enacting environments is indicative of a potentially general characteristic in digital quantification practices - whether in offices or in laboratories: data flows are not that clean and under control. While workers may achieve staging being in control, in practice parallel versions of realities may proliferate - for the better or worse. What we find is that the reality of corporate carbon emissions is enacted as mutable, mobile and multiple. In the practical work of corporate fact finders, it is not necessary, albeit it is deemed required, that facts are singularised and immutablised. In consequence, social and economic reality is confronted with diverse carbon emission accounts, all implying universal truths. Societies and politics which resist engaging with parallel realities and insist on singular ones may not be well equipped to manage those crises that may be co-constituted by these parallel realities. Ethnographic work underlying this argument involved participant observation over a period of twenty months as well as document analysis. The study took place at a Fortune 50 financial services provider positioned in a legitimising network involving one of the largest international environmental NGO's and one of the four largest auditing firms. The findings of this study are, thus, considered to point to practices indicative of widely organisationally accepted and shared realities within hegemonic modern capitalist culture.}, language = {en} } @misc{Lippert, author = {Lippert, Ingmar}, title = {On Not Muddling Lunches and Flights: Narrating a Number, Qualculation, and Ontologising Troubles}, series = {Science \& Technology Studies}, volume = {31}, journal = {Science \& Technology Studies}, number = {4}, issn = {2243-4690}, doi = {10.23987/sts.66209}, pages = {53 -- 74}, abstract = {Calculating and making public carbon footprints is becoming self-evident for multinational corporations. Drawing on ethnographic data I narrate of the calculative routine practices involved in that process. The narration shows how routine yet sophisticated mathematical transformations are involved in retrieving salient information, and second that mathematical consistency is readily interrupted by 'dirty data'. Such interruptions call for opportunistic data management in devising work-arounds, which effect enough mathematical coherence for the number to hold together. Foregrounding an episode of calculative data retrieval, interruption and work-around contrivance, I employ it to make a comparative reading of two STS analytics, arguing: whereas Callon and Law's (2005) analytic technique of qualculation reveals the episode of data management and work around contrivance as a teleologically oriented process that manages to bridge mathematical inconsistency, Verran's technique of ontologising troubles enables us to recognise how a number-as-network configures its particular kind of certainty and coherence, how it sticks.}, language = {en} } @misc{Lippert, author = {Lippert, Ingmar}, title = {Environment as Datascape: Enacting Emission Realities in Corporate Carbon Accounting}, series = {Geoforum}, volume = {66}, journal = {Geoforum}, issn = {0016-7185}, doi = {10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.09.009}, pages = {125 -- 135}, abstract = {Ecological modernist approaches to climate change are premised upon knowing carbon emissions. I ask how corporate environmental managers know and do carbon, i.e., shape the reality of emissions. I argue that for managers' practical purposes carbon exists as malleable data. Based on ethnographic fieldwork over a period of 20 months in a Fortune 50 multinational corporation, I show that managers materially-discursively arrange heterogeneous entities - databases, files, paper, words, numbers - in and between office spaces, enabling them to stage emission facts as stable and singular. Employing Annemarie Mol's work on multiplicity, I show that multiple enactments of carbon hang together not by an antecedent body (CO2) but through ongoing configurations of data practices. Disillusioning promissory economic discourses of 'internalisation', I demonstrate: Management is materially premised upon preventing purportedly internalised carbon realities from entering capitalist core processes. This undermines carbon economics' realist promises. Staging some carbon realities as in control is premised upon managers' ongoing, reflexive, partial and always situated configuration of, e.g., standards, formal meetings or digital data practices in which humans do carbon-as-data. Carbon practices are materially-discursively aligned, forming a configuration. This configuration effects carbon as a malleable and locally configurable space rather than as a closed fact. Reconstructing managers' practices as configuring carbon-as-dataspace, I argue, allows grasping adequately the contingency and constraints of managing carbon as a particular material-discursive form of environment. In conclusion I generalise the environmental management office as a space that can be configured to stage, beyond carbon, other global environments as well.}, language = {en} } @misc{LippertVerran, author = {Lippert, Ingmar and Verran, Helen}, title = {After Numbers? Innovations in Science and Technology Studies' analytics of Numbers and Numbering}, series = {Science \& Technology Studies}, volume = {31}, journal = {Science \& Technology Studies}, number = {4}, issn = {2243-4690}, doi = {10.23987/sts.76416}, pages = {2 -- 12}, abstract = {Locating studies of numbers in STS-and the proposed position of this SI Number studies have featured often in past STS scholarship. Indeed, one might articulate a history of STS analytic concepts and theories by tracking number studies. One might begin such an undertaking by pointing out that studies in STS followed anthropology in proposing numbers as social entities, noting that in anthropology number studies have featured since the end of the nineteenth century. When STS studies generally were focussing on epistemology, the analytic framings of number scholarship in STS reflected that. From the 1970s until the end of the century number studies proliferated. In line with other areas of STS, a focus on ontology began to appear in number studies in the mid 1990s, albeit at first hesitantly (Watson, 1990; Watson-Verran, 1995). But it was not the STS past with its range of number studies that interested us when we set out to assemble this special issue of Science \& Technology Studies. We were more interested to show how contemporary number studies were deploying new analytics that are emerging in STS. To this end we were concerned to have contributors reflect on the analytic framing they were using to make their STS number study and to comparatively articulate the analytic affordances it offered. In beginning we register our delighted surprise at how this special issue turned out, noting how much we learned along the way from the authors who have contributed. We offer six papers each of which we see as broaching a novel issue in STS number studies. They attend to a very wide range of sociotech-nical situations where numbers and/or algorithms feature. The nexus numbers and/as algorithms is puzzlingly relevant to taking on numbers. Recognising that numbers both are and are not algorithms (and vice versa) we begin by making clear how we see relations between numbers and algorithms. While algorithms mobilise a protocol that elaborates how to work relations between numbers, e.g. embedded in a database, numbers express a protocol that lays out how to work relations embedded within a number as it comes into being in the banal routines of enumeration, as for example in Watson (1990).}, language = {en} } @misc{LippertKrauseHartmann, author = {Lippert, Ingmar and Krause, Franz and Hartmann, Niklas}, title = {Environmental Management as Situated Practice}, series = {Geoforum}, volume = {66}, journal = {Geoforum}, issn = {0016-7185}, doi = {10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.09.006}, pages = {107 -- 114}, abstract = {We propose an analysis of environmental management (EM) as work and as practical activity. This approach enables empirical studies of the diverse ways in which professionals, scientists, NGO staffers, and activists achieve the partial manageability of specific "environments". In this introduction, we sketch the debates in Human Geography, Management Studies, and Science and Technology Studies to which this special issue contributes. We identify the limits of understanding EM though the framework of ecological modernisation, and show how political ecology and work-place studies provide important departures towards a more critical approach. Developing these further, into a cosmopolitical direction, we propose studying EM as sets of socially and materially situated practices. This enables a shift away from established approaches which treat EM either as a toolbox whose efficiency has to be assessed, or as simply the implementation of dominant projects and the materialisation of hegemonic discourse. Such a shift renders EM as always messy practices of engagement, critique and improvisation. We conclude that studying the distributed and situated managing agencies, actors and their practices allows to imagine new forms of critical interventions.}, language = {en} } @misc{Lippert, author = {Lippert, Ingmar}, title = {Failing the market, failing deliberative democracy: How scaling up corporate carbon reporting proliferates information asymmetries}, series = {Big Data \& Society}, volume = {3}, journal = {Big Data \& Society}, number = {2}, issn = {2053-9517}, doi = {10.1177/2053951716673390}, pages = {13}, abstract = {Corporate carbon footprint data has become ubiquitous. This data is also highly promissory. But as this paper argues, such data fails both consumers and citizens. The governance of climate change seemingly requires a strong foundation of data on emission sources. Economists approach climate change as a market failure, where the optimisation of the atmosphere is to be evidence based and data driven. Citizens or consumers, state or private agents of control, all require deep access to information to judge emission realities. Whether we are interested in state-led or in neoliberal 'solutions' for either democratic participatory decision-making or for preventing market failure, companies' emissions need to be known. This paper draws on 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a Fortune 50 company's environmental accounting unit to show how carbon reporting interferes with information symmetry requirements, which further troubles possibilities for contesting data. A material-semiotic analysis of the data practices and infrastructures employed in the context of corporate emissions disclosure details the situated political economies of data labour along the data processing chain. The explicit consideration of how information asymmetries are socially and computationally shaped, how contexts are shifted and how data is systematically straightened out informs a reflexive engagement with Big Data. The paper argues that attempts to automatise environmental accounting's veracity management by means of computing metadata or to ensure that data quality meets requirements through third-party control are not satisfactory. The crossover of Big Data with corporate environmental governance does not promise to trouble the political economy that hitherto sustained unsustainability.}, language = {en} } @misc{Lippert, author = {Lippert, Ingmar}, title = {Carbon Classified? Unpacking Heterogeneous Relations Inscribed Into Corporate Carbon Emissions}, series = {Ephemera}, volume = {12}, journal = {Ephemera}, number = {1}, issn = {1473-2866}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-56595-9}, pages = {138 -- 161}, abstract = {How does a corporation know it emits carbon? Acquiring such knowledge starts with the classification of environmentally relevant consumption information. This paper visits the corporate location at which this underlying element for their knowledge is assembled to give rise to carbon emissions. Using an actor-network theory (ANT) framework, the aim is to investigate the actors who bring together the elements needed to classify their carbon emission sources and unpack the heterogeneous relations drawn on. Based on an ethnographic study of corporate agents of ecological modernisation over a period of 13 months, this paper provides an exploration of three cases of enacting classification. Drawing on ANT, we problematise the silencing of a range of possible modalities of consumption facts and point to the ontological ethics involved in such performances. In a context of global warming and corporations construing themselves as able and suitable to manage their emissions, and, additionally, given that the construction of carbon emissions has performative consequences, the underlying practices need to be declassified, i.e. opened for public scrutiny. Hence the paper concludes by arguing for a collective engagement with the ontological politics of carbon.}, language = {en} } @misc{Lippert, author = {Lippert, Ingmar}, title = {Extended Carbon Cognition as a Machine}, series = {Computational Culture}, volume = {1}, journal = {Computational Culture}, number = {1}, issn = {2047-2390}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-60504-9}, pages = {17}, abstract = {Carbon matters. And it is computed. In a culture. Underlying calculations are configured; and they could be configured otherwise. To open a space for conceptual discussion about carbon, this article attempts to reconstruct the extended and distributed practices of knowing carbon emissions with the help of scholarship from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) on heterogeneity and qualculation. To that end, the following pages serve to characterise the machinic quality of a specific technology, one which is often construed as a means for reconciling capitalism with "Nature": the corporate social construction and accounting of carbon dioxide emissions. This allows us to problematise and contextualise the distributed and heterogeneous intelligence assembled by human and non-humans to make intelligible their corporation's carbon footprint. Politically, engagement with this kind of intelligence is key to a critical understanding of the limits to managing the environment. By engaging empirically with carbon accounting, this article offers a contribution to the analysis of the hegemonic to dealing with environmental issues (ecological modernisation) and illustrates the generative quality of conceptual work on heterogeneous assemblages.}, language = {en} } @misc{SareenThomsonTiradoHerreroetal., author = {Sareen, Siddharth and Thomson, Harriet and Tirado-Herrero, Sergio and Gouveia, Jo{\~a}o Pedro and Lippert, Ingmar and Lis, Aleksandra}, title = {European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits}, series = {Global Transitions}, volume = {2}, journal = {Global Transitions}, issn = {2589-7918}, doi = {10.1016/j.glt.2020.01.003}, pages = {26 -- 36}, abstract = {Energy poverty, a condition whereby people cannot secure adequate home energy services, is gaining prominence in public discourse and on political and policy agendas. As its measurement is operationalised, metrical developments are being socially shaped. A European Union mandate for biennial reporting on energy poverty presents an opportunity to institutionalise new metrics and thus privilege certain measurements as standards. While combining indicators at multiple scales is desirable to measure multi-dimensional aspects, it entails challenges such as database availability, coverage and limited disaggregated resolution. This article converges scholarship on metrics - which problematises the act of measurement - and on energy poverty - which apprehends socio-political and techno-economic particulars. Scholarship on metrics suggests that any basket of indicators risks silencing significant but hard to measure aspects, or unwarrantedly privileging others. State-of-the-art energy poverty scholarship calls for indicators that represent contextualised energy use issues, including energy access and quality, expenditure in relation to income, built environment related aspects and thermal comfort levels, while retaining simplicity and comparability for policy traction. We frame energy poverty metrology as the socially shaped measurement of a varied, multi-dimensional phenomenon within historically bureaucratic and publicly distant energy sectors, and assess the risks and opportunities that must be negotiated. To generate actionable knowledge, we propose an analytical framework with five dimensions of energy poverty metrology, and illustrate it using multi-scalar cases from three European countries. Dimensions include historical trajectories, data flattening, contextualised identification, new representation and policy uptake. We argue that the measurement of energy poverty must be informed by the politics of data and scale in order to institutionalise emerging metrics, while safeguarding against their co-optation for purposes other than the deep and rapid alleviation of energy poverty. This 'dimensioned' understanding of metrology can provide leverage to push for decisive action to address the structural underpinnings of domestic energy deprivation.}, language = {en} } @misc{Lippert, author = {Lippert, Ingmar}, title = {Studying Reconfigurations of Discourse: Tracing the Stability and Materiality of "Sustainability/Carbon"}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Diskursforschung}, volume = {2}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Diskursforschung}, number = {1}, issn = {2195-867X}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/52883}, pages = {32 -- 54}, abstract = {The stability of a discourse is not given but produced. It is achieved in the configuration of the dispositif. The paper approaches dispositif as a practical ongoing assembling of semiotic and material entities. The article presents an assemblage of theories, methods and methodologies that allow tracing how heterogeneous entities are (re)(con)figured to achieve performing a discourse's stability. Using mundane office practices that configure the corporate sustainability/carbon discourse as an example, the article spells out how qualitative data analysis, grounded theory and Science and Technology Studies approaches can be interwoven to pursue a grounded and generalisable ethnographic study of discourse.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Lippert, author = {Lippert, Ingmar}, title = {Latour's Gaia - Not down to Earth? Social Studies of Environmental Man- agement for Grounded Understandings of the Politics of Human-Nature Relationships}, series = {Interdisziplin{\"a}res Kolleg f{\"u}r Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung: Yearbook ... of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, Teil: 2012}, booktitle = {Interdisziplin{\"a}res Kolleg f{\"u}r Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung: Yearbook ... of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, Teil: 2012}, editor = {Bamm{\´e}, Arno and Getzinger, G{\"u}nter and Berger, Thomas}, publisher = {Profil}, address = {M{\"u}nchen, Wien}, isbn = {978-3-89019-693-0}, doi = {10/bbnb}, pages = {91 -- 111}, language = {en} } @incollection{RaaschLippert, author = {Raasch, Josefine and Lippert, Ingmar}, title = {Verran, Helen}, series = {The SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Methods}, booktitle = {The SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Methods}, editor = {Atkinson, Paul and Delamont, Sara and Cernat, Alexandru and Sakshaug, Joseph W. and Williams, Richard A.}, publisher = {SAGE Publications}, address = {Los Angeles}, doi = {10/fft6}, abstract = {Helen Verran is a postcolonial historian and philosopher of science at Charles Darwin University in Australia. Her contributions, addressing concepts' performances and effects, are groundbreaking in the study of generalising logics, difference, and ontological politics. This analysis of how concepts get enacted responds to key challenges of social sciences and humanities inquiry.Verran's 'relational empiricism' analyses the many and various practices of conceptualising and their effects. Making relations is a central practice in conceptualising and, thus, part of her analysis. Her approach is relational in that the concepts she analyses are understood as doing something: They relate and separate entities. It is empirical as Verran analyses embodied experiences of worlds/worldings. Central in relational empiricism is the inquiry into tensions and overlaps between concepts as doing differences. Verran is best known for her ethnographic work, particularly on the concept of 'number' (Lippert \& Verran, 2018; Verran, 2001).For Verran, concepts are not merely an intellectual category. Rather, concepts are also embodied and lived, collectively shared and performed in 'repeated routine performances' (Verran, 2001, p. 157). In Verran's material-semiotic analysis, concepts have a realness and are performed or reperformed in situations. This renders concepts as particular in time and place.A world shaped by particular and situated concepts, then, is a world of differences. These differences are not threatening but workable, albeit amid generative dissensus. This take allows possibilities for creating 'futures that are different from the past' (Verran, 2001, p. 35). Verran has developed analytical tools for recognising and doing difference together, for ongoing relating and going-on with others.Before this entry presents three Verranian tools, it locates Verran's work and influences. Then, it introduces and illustrates Verran's key method—storytelling—and presents central tools. The final section addresses politics in Verran's work.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Lippert, author = {Lippert, Ingmar}, title = {In, with and of STS}, series = {Wie forschen mit den "science and technology studies"? : interdisziplin{\"a}re Perspektiven}, booktitle = {Wie forschen mit den "science and technology studies"? : interdisziplin{\"a}re Perspektiven}, editor = {Wiedmann, Astrid and Wagenknecht, Katherin and Goll, Philipp and Wagenknecht, Andreas}, publisher = {Transcript}, address = {Bielefeld}, isbn = {978-3-8376-4379-4}, doi = {10/fdws}, pages = {301 -- 318}, 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.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Lippert, author = {Lippert, Ingmar}, title = {Limits to Managing the Environment}, series = {Implementing Environmental and Resource Management}, booktitle = {Implementing Environmental and Resource Management}, editor = {Schmidt, Michael and Onyango, Vincent and Palekhov, Dmitry}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Heidelberg}, isbn = {978-3-540-77568-3}, pages = {209 -- 210}, abstract = {This part investigates some of the limits and contradictions of management of the environment and its resources, through detailed discussions of key dimensions of applied environmental management. This part introduces studies of 1) resource management (rivers as well as recycling), 2) specific techniques drawn on in corporate and public environmental management (suggestion schemes, and respectively, visualisation techniques), and finally, 3) policy discourses (Clean Development Mechanism). The studies presented here are linked by a common thread which recognises that the historicity of environmental management as a social practice requires us to scrutinise its specificity as a practical, social, cultural as well as political achievement. The ascension of science and modernity gave rise to a qualitative change in cultural conceptualisations of the human-nature relationship: nature became an object to be 'managed' by so-called experts. By now, however, environmental management has come under critique in that what it proposes as solutions may simultaneously comprise the causes of environmental problems. First, the means used by environmental management can be identified as instances of modernism, industrialism as well as capitalism. Second, scholars of environmental problems criticise the 'instruments' of environmental 'management' for reproducing the problems, rather than solving them. To examine how environmental problems ought to be approached a critical stance is now seen as essential. Necessarily then, do issues of ideology, epistemology and theory crop up.}, language = {en} } @misc{Lippert, author = {Lippert, Ingmar}, title = {Umwelt - "Version 2b": Das Programmieren {\"o}kologischer Fehlentscheidungen und Grundlagen f{\"u}r eine neue Umweltpolitik}, series = {Leviathan}, volume = {44}, journal = {Leviathan}, number = {3}, issn = {0340-0425}, doi = {10.5771/0340-0425-2016-3-399}, pages = {399 -- 427}, abstract = {Herrschende Umweltpolitik will evidenzbasiert sein, will Umweltfakten nutzen. Auf Grundlage einer Ethnografie der Produktion betrieblicher CO2-Fußabdr{\"u}cke werden Umweltfakten als Effekt von Arbeit und Datenverarbeitung analysiert. Arbeitspraktisch existiert Umwelt in einem hybriden und taktischen Datenraum. Daraus ergeben sich umweltpolitische Implikationen, die sowohl die Pr{\"a}missen {\"o}kologischer Modernisierung wie auch staatlicher Umweltkontrolle infrage stellen.}, language = {de} } @misc{SimonsLisLippert, author = {Simons, Arno and Lis, Aleksandra and Lippert, Ingmar}, title = {The political duality of scale-making in environmental markets}, series = {Environmental Politics}, volume = {23}, journal = {Environmental Politics}, number = {4}, issn = {1743-8934}, doi = {10.1080/09644016.2014.893120}, pages = {632 -- 649}, abstract = {New markets are key in debates concerning environmental regimes. Critics and proponents share a discourse that characterises environmental markets in terms of scale; many discuss how to scale environmental markets 'the right way'. Building on previous work in human geography, actor-network theory, and governmentality studies, we unpack the dual but always interwoven politics of scale-making in doing environmental policies, which consists of material-semiotic practices of producing and using scales as ontologically real ordering devices. Drawing from the results of three studies conducted independently by the authors, we analyse material-semiotic scale-making practices in different ways of enacting environmental markets. By revealing the dual politics of scale production and use in environmental markets, our analysis contributes to the study of developing and implementing environmental governance.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Lippert, author = {Lippert, Ingmar}, title = {Corporate carbon footprinting as techno-political practice}, series = {The Carbon Fix: Forest Carbon, Social Justice, and Environmental Governance}, booktitle = {The Carbon Fix: Forest Carbon, Social Justice, and Environmental Governance}, editor = {Paladino, Stephanie and Fiske, Shirley J.}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {9781611323337}, 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. But where do emissions come from? How are they done? Carbon footprinting seems to be the simple answer. Is this merely a 'technical' matter? I explore how emissions come into being; carbon accounting emerges as techno-political practice, fraught with non-transparency. This chapter argues that 'successful' corporate carbon accounting practices efficiently and skilfully ignore significant political implications of the company's practical relation to climate change. 'Successful' in this case signifies what matters for the company to compete well in capitalist markets. By examining voluntary carbon accounting at a financial services corporation, I invite an engagement with how the technicality and politics of carbon interrelate in accounting. I ground my analysis in ethnographic fieldwork across 20 months in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) unit at one of the 50 largest companies globally. Over this period, I supported the CSR unit's management of their sustainability data, in exchange for overt and explicit research access to the CSR unit's activities.}, language = {en} } @incollection{WolfLippert, author = {Wolf, Stephan and Lippert, Ingmar}, title = {Hochschulen auf dem Weg zur Nachhaltigkeit: M{\"o}glichkeiten studentischer Partizipation in Umweltmanagementsystemen}, series = {Umweltmanagement an Hochschulen: Nachhaltigkeitsperspektiven}, booktitle = {Umweltmanagement an Hochschulen: Nachhaltigkeitsperspektiven}, editor = {Leal Filho, Walter and Delakowitz, Bernd}, publisher = {Peter Lang}, address = {Frankfurt am Main}, isbn = {978-3-631-52956-0}, 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 Verh{\"a}ltnis auf die Potentiale der Hinterfragung von Lehre und Forschung aus der Perspektive des Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurses. F{\"u}r einen Prozess der nachhaltigen Hochschulentwicklung erscheint als wesentlich, Studium, hochschulpolitische Engagementm{\"o}glichkeiten sowie Forschung selbst zum Objekt von Nachhaltigkeitsdiskussionen in den Vordergrund zu stellen.}, language = {de} } @misc{LippertMewes, author = {Lippert, Ingmar and Mewes, Julie Sascia}, title = {Data, Methods and Writing: Methodographies of STS Ethnographic Collaboration in Practice}, series = {Science \& Technology Studies}, volume = {34}, journal = {Science \& Technology Studies}, number = {3}, issn = {2243-4690}, doi = {10.23987/sts.110597}, pages = {2 -- 16}, abstract = {Methods have been recognised in STS as mattering for a long time. STS ethnographies establish a boundary object with which STS scholars weave a pattern: From such ethnographic accounts we learn that knowledge is produced locally. Ethnography has over the recent decades been highlighted as a key method in STS. And that STS ethnography is specifically shaped by being often configured to consider its forms of collaboration or intervention in the field. This special issue focuses on how methods matter, specifically on how STS ethnographic collaboration and its data are translated into ethnographic writing, or performative of other reality effects. Exploring STS's own methods-in-action brings to attention the messy landscape of method practice. Our objective in this exploration is to develop a genre of writing about method that fosters response-ability and enables the audience of research output to position themselves between the research materials and practices that were invested into the study. This special issue hopes to contribute to STS engagement with its methods by way of methodography. Methodography serves as a genre of analytic writing, that articulates specificity and scrutinises the situated practices of producing STS knowledge.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Lippert, author = {Lippert, Ingmar}, title = {Digitalisation as promissory infrastructure for sustainability}, series = {Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics}, booktitle = {Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics}, editor = {Pellizzioni, Luigi and Leonardi, Emanuele and Asara, Viviana}, publisher = {Edward Elgar}, address = {Cheltenham}, isbn = {978-1-83910-066-6}, doi = {10.4337/9781839100673.00049}, 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.}, language = {en} }