Jørgensen, Jørgensen and Pritchard (eds.) New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies

Ibsen, Hilde

doi:10.5324/njsts.v3i1.2157

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“…Data infrastructures are assembled by strategic actors in specific ways that advance and subdue key interests as digitalising energy systems undergo low‐carbon transitions; this has resonance with the digital Anthropocene beyond energy. Indeed, Jørgensen et al (2013) write about the changing political ecology of human‐nature relations with not only technological evolution, but the way such evolving infrastructures impact knowledge and expertise. Twin transitions, then, have political effects; these are deeply entangled with the digital Anthropocene.…”

Section: Cross‐sectoral Metrics and Accountable Digitalisation To Low...mentioning

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Cross‐sectoral metrics as accountability tools for twin transitioning energy systems

Sareen

2023

Env Pol Gov

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As energy systems become ever more closely intertwined in order to enable electrification and real‐time coordination across sectors, tracking the nature of change to ensure accountability during complex implementation processes presents novel challenges and requires renewed thinking on data infrastructures. For instance, sectors like electricity generation, electricity distribution and electrified urban transport have begun to interact more closely and with more spatial complexity than ever before. Correspondingly, this conceptual article articulates the evolving relationship between cross‐sectoral metrics (CSM) and twin transitions (i.e., digitalisation and decarbonisation) of energy systems in the Anthropocene. It argues for development of explicitly cross‐sectoral metrical analysis as an accountability tool for shifts to equitable, low‐carbon energy systems. It draws on three pertinent fields of study—calculative logics, institutionalisation, and degrees of digitalisation—to provide the basis for a theory of transformative metrics for application to evolving energy systems. Scholarship on calculative logics offers insights on the nature of metrics, work on institutionalisation helps understand the dynamics of integrating novel metrics into evolving sociotechnical systems, and consideration of degrees of digitalisation ensures mindfulness of differences across contexts. Resulting insights can serve as diagnostic tools to inform timely monitoring and implementation of twin transitions for energy systems. Work across three distinct lines of scholarship is specified to enable conceptual development, and an empirical case study is sketched to show how to operationalise and apply an analytical framework. This delineation serves as a step towards a theory of transformative metrics, for integrative study of CSM for accountable twin transitions.

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Cross‐sectoral metrics as accountability tools for twin transitioning energy systems

Sareen

2023

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“…Importantly, more than a collection of both macro-and micro-histories, envirotech scholarship shows the value of merging environmental history's foregrounding of the non-human in the analysis of long-term social processes, with STS's conceptual and methodological approaches to the study of complex systems. These include black boxes, boundary-work, actor-network theory, knowledge production as a social process, and other key tenets of STS research that have deeply enriched historical analyses (for an overview and several examples, see Jørgensen et al, 2013).…”

Section: Beyond Anthropology: Environing Infrastructure In and From T...mentioning

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Infrastructure and the environment in anthropology

Rippa

2023

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This article maps out a nascent field that is currently taking shape, one that bridges anthropological considerations of infrastructure, political ecology, and science and technology studies with transdisciplinary approaches to ethics of care beyond the human. This emerging field stimulates a re-thinking of the relationships between the built and the non-built environment and encourages exploring infrastructure as indexes by which to grasp, ethnographically and methodologically, the Anthropocene. In this article, I outline and review this field, paying particular attention to the multiple legacies that inform current anthropological research on the relations between infrastructure and the environment. In doing so I mobilize environing infrastructure as a guiding framework of analysis – a notion I borrow from recent scholarship in environmental history and that helps appreciating infrastructure as historically specific multi-species formations.

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Jørgensen, Jørgensen and Pritchard (eds.) New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies

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Cross‐sectoral metrics as accountability tools for twin transitioning energy systems

Cross‐sectoral metrics as accountability tools for twin transitioning energy systems

Infrastructure and the environment in anthropology

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