management

Environmental management: between zooming in and out

Bruzzone, Silvia. "Environmental management: between zooming in and out." Workshop "How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management", 2012.

Workshop 2012's theme IV (Rationalities)

Expected Papers

  • Liana Müller1
  • Silvia Bruzzone2
  • Anonymous Practitioner and Ingmar Lippert3
  • Jürgen Hauber4

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.

The Manager and His Powers

Law, John. The Manager and His Powers. Vol. 2011. Lancaster University (Department of Sociology), 1997.
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