Abstract
Drawing on fieldwork in a transnational Fortune 50 finance sector company's environmental management team, this paper attends to the transformation of the company's environmental accounting infrastructure. I analyse ethnographic vignettes of situations in which environmental agents interact with financial data strategists, rendering expectations, dreams and limits of dreams mutually accountable. I am interested exploring how environmental agents socio-technically achieved to maintain dreaming of particular improvements that they were looking for in the transformation, whilst data strategists offered wake-up calls, disillusioning the dream. Conceptually, I explore Verran's take on metaphysical commitments in ontic & ontological politics in relation to the role of ignorance in reality-making. Politically, this analysis raises concerns about how the maintenance of the environmental agents' dreaming may prefigure erroneous environments, sustaining unsustainability.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication date | 2016 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
| Event | Danish STS Conference 2016 - Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Duration: 2 Jun 2016 → 3 Jun 2016 http://sts.au.dk/dasts16/ |
Conference
| Conference | Danish STS Conference 2016 |
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| Location | Aarhus University |
| Country/Territory | Denmark |
| City | Aarhus |
| Period | 02/06/2016 → 03/06/2016 |
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Keywords
- dreaming
- Science and Technology Studies
- carbon accounting