Talk:Workshop Confronting Manageability Paradigm/General Results

Publication

Collected Themes: Quotes

Quote from General Results:

We need to work on the papers such that they relate to each other clearly. They need to be in a similar academic context. Although a coherent theoretical frame is difficult we can have some common themes which run through the contributions.

A basis for the publication could or should be the call for contributions.

Themes and questions which could run through the publication:

• How does environmental management lead to situations in which specific problems are not dealt with?
• What are/is environmental management (practices) based on?
• What do particular models of management make visible/invisible?
• How does political economy come into environmental management (practices), and how science&technology?
• How is the observed/studied (practice/paradigm) peculiar? Constitute it as worth being studied.
• What is meant by environmental management?
• What happens under the umbrella, within the container/black box "environmental management"?

Keywords could be structures, factors, believes, boundaries

Quote from the call for contributions:

This workshop, therefore, intends to advance reflections on the very notion `management' and may bring about a novel take on studies of environmental management. The participants will come together for a weekend to critically discuss questions related to environmental `management'. You are cordially invited to make a conceptual and/or empirical contribution in which you make your critique explicit in examining aspects of environmental management. Some possible themes to consider include, but are not restricted to:

• The reality of environmental `management' practices
  • How do opportunities/constraints guide practitioners in choosing between competing `tools'?
  • What relations do practitioners identify between their practices and (the solution to) the identified problems?
  • Who is put at a(n) (dis)advantage by these practices?
• The production and reproduction of the environmental `management' paradigm
  • Which societal/historical/political conditions are significant for sustaining the paradigm?
  • How is the paradigm discussed by practitioners?
  • Could we overcome the paradigm?
• The scientific construction of environmental `management' knowledge
  • How is knowledge about `management' practices created?
  • Why is some knowledge silenced by science?
  • Could alternative knowledge on environmental `management' make an impact on `management' practices?

Suggestions for Next Steps

1. Clarifying the aim: for whom do we write?
2. Finding common ground between our contributions: how are our thoughts/is our research related?

Aim

• target group: for researchers who make environmental management the object of their study, social scientists? (both are the same?)
• kind of publication?
  • online [(In any case a PDF is needed for print publication, this file also can easily be distributed online (on the wiki, on the research page, at BTU library)]
  • local publication at Cottbus Uni or elsewhere? [Local publication at BTU seems to be the easiest (but this shall not exclude any other opportunities / universities)]
  • book
  • article publication in respective journals [contributions to a book also could easily be published in respective journals (if they fulfill the standard)]

Finding Common Ground

• everybody of us adds her/his name behind one of the existing (or new) questions/themes. and writes how we relate to the question
• Then we see in how far we cover similar topics. then we can think together how to arrange our contributions, link them, or change them...

Overall: making critiques explicit in examining aspects of environmental management

Themes

hmm, what is a "theme"? i guess, i am more interested in questions. lateron we can see whether we find themes, which summarise well, what connects us "really".

Questions

• The reality of environmental `management' practices
  • How do opportunities/constraints guide practitioners in choosing between competing `tools'?
    {Ingmar: recycling case. how Julian's "choice" to create a recycling network is aligned to social fields (Bourdieu).}
  • What relations do practitioners identify between their practices and (the solution to) the identified problems?
  • Who is put at a(n) (dis)advantage by these practices?
• The production and reproduction of the environmental `management' paradigm
  • Which societal/historical/political conditions are significant for sustaining the paradigm?
    {Ingmar: recycling case. how Julian's recycling network preserves a capitalist regime}
    {Franz: river management. discourses of national/ regional development, progress, employment, energy autonomy}
  • How is the paradigm discussed by practitioners?
  • Could we overcome the paradigm?
  • Why/In what ways do we think it is "time for change"?
    {Seba: the (perceived) need for EM}
• The scientific construction of environmental `management' knowledge
  • How is knowledge about `management' practices created?
    {Franz: river management. peculiar mix of formal and informal/experiential learning}
    {Hannah: This question is very interesting! We could aim at a critical appraisal of the scientific enterprise feeding knowledge into management practices(questioning funding priorities and the applicability paradigm); Further: How does new scientific knowledge enter practical operations?; When are management practices irritated by lay expertise and political priorities?}
  • Why is some knowledge silenced by science?
    {Hannah: What is the idea behind this question? The author might have a certain example in mind?!}
  • Could alternative knowledge on environmental `management' make an impact on `management' practices?
    {Franz: river management. attitudes of salmon weirs/ferries/etc vs. hydroelectric dams}
• How does environmental management lead to situations in which specific problems are not dealt with?
  {Ingmar: recycling case. glass waste is dealt with rather than glass production/consumption/economy}
• What are/is environmental management (practices) based on?
  {Seba: ecocentric/technocentric approaches, and of course happens based on the assumptions of and within the current economic system (progress, growth, profit)}
• What do particular models of management make visible/invisible?
  {Ingmar: recycling case. Management model used by Julian makes invisible other fields (Bourdieu).}
  {Franz: river management. framing of "problem" concerning/acknowledging particular activities, ignoring others}
• How does political economy come into environmental management (practices), and how science&technology?
  {Hannah: see my comment on knowledge and management practices above, and: we have technological inventions, but what is needed to innovate? e.g.: wind power is still not very popular although it would be feasible and economically beneficial to install the technology on a large scale; why do applied knowledge, and ready-to-install technologies not have an impact on practices?}
• How is the observed/studied (practice/paradigm) peculiar? Constitute it as worth being studied.
• What is meant by environmental management?
• What happens under the umbrella, within the container/black box "environmental management"?
  {Ingmar: recycling case}
• Which ideas of the "natural environment" underlie particular management regimes?
  {Franz: river management. a phenomenon to adjust or one to adjust to}

References

some main readings which influenced us and we would be willing to relate to quite a bit in the contribution.

• Capitalism and the Environment
  {Ingmar&Anke?: Introduction}
  • Clark, B. & York, R. Carbon metabolism: Global capitalism, climate change, and the biospheric rift Theory and Society, 2005, 34, 391-428
  • Li, X. & Hersh, J. Understanding Capitalism: Crises and Passive Revolutions Competition & Change, 2002, 6, 193-212
  • Hornborg, Alf (2001). The Power of the Machine: Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment. Walnut Creek: AltaMira
  • De Bruyn, Sander M.: Economic Growth and the Environment, An Empirical Analysis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2000, ISBN 0 7923 61539
    {Seba}
  • Mills, John; A Critical History of Economics; Palgrave/MacMillan, NewYork, 2007; ISBN 0333971302
    {Seba}
• Utopianism
  {Ingmar: Hope for the future/concluding thoughts;}
  • Pepper, D. Utopianism and Environmentalism Environmental Politics, 2005, 14, 3-22
• Social Theory
  • Bourdieu
    {Ingmar: recycling case; }
  • Actor-Network Theory (Callon, Latour, Law)
    {Ingmar: recycling case; Ingmar: chapter/section on "knowledge"}
    {Franz: river management}
• Feminism
  • Haraway
    {Ingmar: chapter/section on "knowledge".}
• Critique of "Environmental Management"
  {Ingmar&Anke?: Introduction}
  • Wilson, G. A. & Bryant, R. L. Environmental Management: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century UCL Press, 1997
• Human-environment relations
  • Ingold, Tim (2000). The perception of the environment. Essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill. London: Routledge
    {Franz: river management}
  • Pol, Enric: EM: A Perspective from Environmental Psychology; in Bechtel, Robert B.; Churchman, Arza (eds.); Handbook of Environmental Psychology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2002, ISBN 9780471405948
    {Seba: perceived need}
  • Hollier, Graham; Jones, Gareth: Resources, Society and EM. Paul Chapman Publishing Ltd., London 1997, ISBN 1 853962341
    {Seba: ecocentric/technocentric approaches}
  • McNeill, John R.: Blue Planet: Die Geschichte der Umwelt im 20.Jahrhundert, Bonn, 2005 (German, compare Something new under the sun; at Norton & Company, 2000) ISBN 3 89 331 643 4
    {Seba: perceived need}
  • Meadows, Randers; Grenzen des Wachstums - das 30-Jahre-Update; Hirzel, Stuttgart, 2007 (German); ISBN 9783777613840
    {Seba: perceived need}
• Political ecology
  • Paul Robbins, Arturo Escobar, ...

Resources

Ingmar: I am really interested in this project: hence i am willing to invest time...

Money: we got a grant of 2.000 EUR for meetings which lead to a publication and the publication itself.

Estimated Cost for Print Publication

• Without distribution cost
• Rough estimates
• Applying to Cottbus