TY - GEN A1 - Lippert, Ingmar A1 - Krause, Franz A1 - Hartmann, Niklas T1 - Environmental Management as Situated Practice T2 - Geoforum N2 - 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. KW - Conservation KW - Political ecology KW - Post-constructivism KW - Cosmopolitics KW - Ecological modernisation KW - Workplace studies Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.09.006 SN - 0016-7185 VL - 66 SP - 107 EP - 114 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Lippert, Ingmar ED - Pellizzioni, Luigi ED - Leonardi, Emanuele ED - Asara, Viviana T1 - Digitalisation as promissory infrastructure for sustainability T2 - Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics N2 - 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. KW - Digitalisation KW - Ecomodernism KW - Ecological modernisation KW - smart cities KW - carbon accounting KW - sustainable development KW - discourse KW - capitalist accelerationism KW - infrastructure studies Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-1-83910-066-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100673.00049 SP - 540 EP - 553 PB - Edward Elgar CY - Cheltenham ER -