Biography
- By Ingmar Lippert - Posted on February 5th, 2009
Ingmar Lippert is doing research on Agents of Ecological Modernisation supervised by the Chair for Sociology of Augsburg University (Germany). He did his undergraduate studies at Brandenburg University of Technology (Germany) and Bosporus University (Turkey) and graduated in Environmental and Resource Management. During this degree his interest shifted from the management issue (choosing and optimising the `right' tools) towards a critical investigation of the societal conditions of the management paradigm and the construction of choices and norms which environmental managers act on. Institutionally this shift has urged him to study social scientific perspectives and, therefore, he moved on to postgraduate studies in Environment, Culture and Society at the Centre for Study of Environmental Change (Sociology Department) and the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy of Lancaster University, UK. In this context he started to conceptualise environmental managers as agents of ecological modernisation, problematised using various critical takes in and beyond social theory: Bourdieu, Critical Realism, Autonomist Thought and Actor-Network Theory. From this vantage point he investigates workers who are supposedly bringing about the 'greening' of their corporation. He focuses on their knowledge practices and how implicit and explicit norms are used as resources as well as limit and channel their agency in their engagement with carbon accounting.
As a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (affiliated to the Inter-University Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture of Klagenfurt University, University of Graz and Graz University of Technology) Ingmar Lippert was the first winner of the Manfred-Heindler-grant.
Current Research
Ingmar Lippert is focussing on the enactment of carbon emissions by corporate agents of ecological modernisation. Lean more about his recent activities at our blog.Affiliations
- Member of the International Sociological Association (ISA): Research Committee on the Sociology of Science and Technology (RC 23)
- Member of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology
- German National Academic Foundation (Scholarship holder)
- Hans Böckler Foundation (Scholarship holder)
- Member of the International Sociological Association (ISA): Research Committee on the Sociology of Science and Technology (RC 23)
