Recycling

Over the last 90 days, our conceptual papers "Outsourcing Emissions: Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as Ecological Modernisation" and "Sustaining Waste – Sociological Perspectives on Recycling a Hybrid Object" are among the five most read articles in an environmental management book (published by Springer). As it seems: our papers have been well placed in that outlet.

Since June 2011, available by Springer Publishers, is our recent collection of studies all addressing the limits to managing the environment1. We employ five case studies to engage with several dimensions of how environmental management practice and discourse is constrained.

• 1. Lippert, Ingmar. Limits to Managing the Environment In Implementing Environmental and Resource Management, Edited by M. Schmidt, V. Onyango and D. Palekhov. Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

Questioning the Social Technology "Recycling"

by Ingmar Lippert

A: Introduction to the background and case
- "Julian Berger"
- Recycling
B: Two ways to frame the case; or: How social theory can help
- Actor-Network Theory - "John Law"
- Habitus & Technology - "Pierre Bourdieu" and "Jonathan Sterne"
- Revisiting "Recycling"
C: Conclusions?