discourse

• 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.

At Panel 38 “Environmental Market Space(s): Discourse, Power, and Legitimacy” of the Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA) conference, two members of our group will present papers in the session "Environmental markets as socio-technical arrangements".

Climate change as a discursive frame for environmental management: How social movement organisations frame the debate in Finland

by Hannah Strauss