Workshop "How do you manage?": Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Programme

• Programme of workshop
• List of keynotes

Preparing for the workshop's discussions

Building a common ground

During this workshop we aim to draw together discussions on the papers by way of (probably) three time slots in which we use as a common ground these papers:

1. session on: Ecological modernisation & sustainability: Mol on ecological modernisation and environmental sociologies1 vs Blühdorn on unsustainability2

2. session on: heterogeneous engineering: we use Law's "the manager and his power"3, and Ingold's "The textility of making"4 as a secondary reading.

3. session on: situated knowledges: Haraway's situated knowledge5, and as background reading an encyclopaedia article.

In order to utilise these texts as common reference points during the workshop, we like to suggest that you consider having a look at this indicative set of readings listed above.

Further proposed readings

• Kristin Asdal's Enacting things through numbers: Taking nature into account/ing6
• Olwig, K. R. (2008). Performing on the Landscape vs. Doing Landscape: Perambulatory Practice, Sight and the Sense of Belonging. Ways of Walking: Ethnography and Practice on Foot. T. Ingold and J. L. Vergunst. Aldershot, Ashgate: 81-91.
• L. Suchman. Configuration. In C. Lury and N. Wakeford, editors, Inventive Methods: The happening of the social. Routledge, 2012.

Organisational questions

Workshop duration

• Evening of Monday, 28th May: informal get-together
• Start: at the morning of Tuesday, 29th May (9am)
• End: evening of Saturday, 2nd June (5:30pm) [afterwards: informal publication discussion]

Orientation in Bielefeld

See this map for spatial coordinates and relations (ZiF, hotel, informal gathering, etc).

Travel

• We recommend booking travel such that you arrive 28th of May and leave 3rd of June.
• Visit ZiF's travel recommendations website for further information.
• Contact workshop organisers if you need yet additional information/help.

Local Transport

To travel between hotel and ZiF, participants are asked to buy tickets individually. ZiF will provide reimbursement after the workshop.
For participants who stay for the complete workshop buying one time a weekly ticket will be cheapest.

Meals

• The workshop budget allows to cover meals during workshop hours, i.e. lunch and coffee breaks
• Other meals have to be paid for by participants

• 1. Mol, Arthur P. J.. "Social Theories of Environmental Reform: Towards a Third Generation." In Environmental Sociology: European Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Challenges, edited by M. Gross and Harald Heinrichs, 19-38. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer Verlag, 2010.
• 2. Blühdorn, Ingolfur, and Ian Welsh. "Eco-politics beyond the Paradigm of Sustainability: A Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda." Environmental Politics 16 (2007): 185-205.
• 3. Law, John. The Manager and His Powers. Vol. 2011. Lancaster University (Department of Sociology), 1997.
• 4. Ingold, Tim. "The textility of making." Cambridge Journal of Economics (2010).
• 5. Haraway, Donna. "Situated Knowledges: the Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective." Feminist Studies 14 (1988): 575-599.
• 6. Asdal, Kristin. "Enacting things through numbers: Taking nature into account/ing." Geoforum 39 (2008): 123-132.