As part of the Asia-Pacific Science, Technology & Society Network – Biennial Conference 2013, Ingmar Lippert organised a panel that presents studies of the socio-technical networks in which numbers are created, done or undone. The panel After numbers? Doing and undoing qualculative practices compares studies across three different fields: environmental studies, eduction policy and biomedical research.

The environment needs to be protected. Well, this is what the universal "we" has agreed upon. So, there is an environment. And this environment needs human protectors, human managers. Between 2008 and 2012 I studied environmental managers in a corporation (a multinational Fortune 50 company).1 A key question emerging from this work is: which environment is being protected - or managed? Does more than one, singular, environment exist?

• 1. Lippert, Ingmar. Enacting Environments: An Ethnography of the Digitalisation and Naturalisation of Emissions. Augsburg: Augsburg University, Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2013.

Ingmar Lippert has been invited to give a lecture on carbon quantification and carbon markets as part of Tembusu College's Senior Module Climate Change.

Drawing on his ethnographic work in a Fortune 50 company on carbon accounting, he will provide an understanding of how hegemonic carbon policy approaches are grounded in the fundamental assumption that carbon emissions can be quantified.

The conference "Design and displacement – social studies of science and technology" has been organised by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) jointly with the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and takes place October 17-20, 2012, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark.

Expected Papers

• Ignacio Farias1
• Paula Ungar and Roger Strand2
• Isabelle Mauz3
• Israel Rodriguez Giralt4
• Uli Beisel5

Introductory considerations

Managing Objects

In the first part of this theme we endorse how objects are generated in scholarly and managerial interaction and how they are subsequently managed.

The “object” part of "managing objects"

Key questions here: What are the objects of environmental management? How are environmental entities construed as objects in practice as well as theory?

• 1. Farias, Ignacio. "Re-cognizing Tsunamis: The Cosmopolitics of Tsunami Warning Systems (and Failures)." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.
• 2. Ungar, Paula, and Roger Strand. "Protected Area Management and Pertinent Knowledge: What does Management Mean and Which Knowledge is Pertinent? A case study in the Colombian Amazon." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.
• 3. Mauz, Isabelle. "Wildlife management in practice. The case of the preys-predator programme in the Mercantour national park." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.
• 4. Giralt, Israel Rodriguez. "Unpacking nonhuman environments: the role of migratory birds in Donana's Environmental Disaster." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.
• 5. Beisel, Ulrike. "Assembling mosquito nets, managing malaria." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.

Graph editors are very useful for qualitative research. As part of my ongoing engagement with visualising qualitative relationships between materials and actors during the analysis of ethnographic data, I repeatedly stumbled upon so-called graph editors. These are software programmes used by graph theorists, amongst others. In short, graph editors are able to design layouts of nodes (entities) and edges (relations).

Expected Structure

• Theme intro by Franz Krause
• Keynote by Ken Olwig
• Paper by David Rojas1 (comment by Andrew)
• Paper by Jukka Nyyssönen2 (comment by Lisiunia)
• Paper by Andrew Whitehouse3 (comment by Jukka)
• Paper by Lisiunia A. Romanienko4 (comment by David)
• 'Spotlight' with Clare Waterton, Ken Olwig and Franz Krause

Introductory considerations

Under the label of ‘performance and imaginaries’ we address a key set of questions for the workshop. Performance is a concept that has been developed to emphasise the particular aspects of the practices that constitute social and ecological forms and processes. Szerszynski et al (2003) summarise that performance suggests practices, often iterative ones that constitute or bring about phenomena that would not exist without this (regular) activity. They continue that this practice always stands in a creative tension with a corresponding script or precedent, which informs that practice, but from which the practice inevitable departs to some extent.

• 1. Rojas, David. "Managing Catastrophe. Carbon Payments and the Aesthetics of Environmental Collapse in the Brazilian Amazon." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.
• 2. Nyyssönen, Jukka. "State of Finland as an agent of sustainability – the consequences of introduction of hegemonic ecologies in Sami domicile." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.
• 3. Whitehouse, Andrew. "Geese and Raptors: legitimate and illegitimate killing in the Scottish countryside." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.
• 4. Romanienko, Lisiunia A.. "Berries, Bombs, and Bodies: Multiple Modes of Managed Militancy in the Anarcho-Primitivist Case of the Unabomber." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.

The workshop is structured into three themes:

• Workshop 2012's theme I (Performance and Imaginaries)
  • coordinated by Franz Martin Krause
  • Keynote by Kenneth Olwig
  • Discussant Claire Waterton
• Workshop 2012's theme II (Managing Objects, Enacting Assemblages)
  • coordinated by Anup Sam Ninan, Hannah Strauss, Niklas Hartmann
  • Keynote by Kristin Asdal
  • Discussant Werner Krauss

• coordinated by Ingmar Lippert
• Keynote by Lucy Suchman
• Discussant Isabelle Mauz

Expected Papers

• Jürgen Hauber1; commented by Anonymous Practitioner
• Silvia Bruzzone2; commented by Liana Müller
• Liana Müller3; commented by Silvia Bruzzone
• Anonymous Practitioner and Ingmar Lippert4; commented by Jürgen Hauber

Introductory considerations

In the received view, environmental management presupposes plans and ideas: management has objectives, such as reaching a specific point or reaching a dynamic trajectory around a certain state. Two examples should suffer: the former might be the re-introduction of a specific species; or an example for the kind of target might be ensuring a specified continuing yield of resources. In response, critics conceptualise a rationality, mostly imagined as a singular but multi-backgrounded phenomenon - such as The Western, Capitalist and/or Masculine rationality of Rational Control5/6 (and opposed to an Ecological Rationality7/8) - which is heralded by hegemonic players.

• 1. Hauber, Jürgen. "The practical performance of coordination: The case of bioenergy value chains." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.
• 2. Bruzzone, Silvia. "Environmental management: between zooming in and out." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.
• 3. Müller, Liana. "The Legal Dwelling: Taming the law in the construction sector in Norway." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.
• 4. Lippert, Ingmar, and Anonymous. "A dialogue about `diffuse requirements' on an environmental manager's task to report about technical and environmental safety." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.
• 5. Banerjee, S. B.. "Who Sustains Whose Development? Sustainable Development and the Reinvention of Nature." Organization Studies 24 (2003): 143-180.
• 6. Bäckstrand, Karin. "Scientisation vs. Civic Expertise in Environmental Governance: Eco-feminist, Eco-modern and Post-modern Responses." Environmental Politics 13 (2004): 695-714.
• 7. Clark, Brett, and Richard York. "Carbon metabolism: Global capitalism, climate change, and the biospheric rift." Theory and Society 34 (2005): 391-428.
• 8. Mol, Arthur P. J.. "Environment and Modernity in Transitional China: Frontiers of Ecological Modernization." Development and Change 37 (2006): 29-56.

• Conference: 7th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA) 2012, 5-7 July Understanding the Drama of Democracy. Policy Work, Power and Transformation

• Panel: Prompters and Curtain-Pullers: Policy advisers in Practice;