Ingmar Lippert
turned from studying Environmental and Resource Management in Cottbus via an environmental STS programme on Environment, Culture and Society at Lancaster to a PhD in Sociology (Augsburg). He is currently based at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Goethe University; before he has been Associate Professor of Social Studies of Digitalisation, Environment and Infrastructure at the IT University of Copenhagen, has been a Lecturer at National University of Singapore and been affiliated with Brandenburg University of Technology, the Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science – Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld, and the Institute for Advanced Studies of Science, Technology and Society at Graz. Lippert’s research interests include ontological politics, numbers and data, infrastructures, sustainability governance and accountability.
Publications
Core Publications
Lippert, I. (2022). Digitalisation as promissory infrastructure for sustainability. In Pellizzoni, L., Leonardi, E. & Asara, V. (eds.), Elgar Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics. Cheltenham/Northampton: Edward Elgar.
Lippert, I. & Mewes, J. (2021). Data, Methods and Writing. Science & Technology Studies, 34 (3).
Lippert, I. (2020). In, with and of STS. In Wiedmann, A., Wagenknecht, K., Goll, P. & Wagenknecht, A. (eds.), Wie forschen mit den ‘Science and Technology Studies’? Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Bielefeld: Transcript.
Lippert, I. & Verran, H. (2018). After numbers? Innovations in Science and Technology Studies’ Analytics of Numbers and Numbering. Science & Technology Studies, 31 (4).
Lippert, I. (2015). Environment as datascape: Enacting emission realities in corporate carbon accounting. Geoforum, 66.
Lippert, I., Krause, F. & Hartmann, N. (2015). Environmental Management as Situated Practice. Geoforum, 66.
Most recent
Mewes, J. S. & Lippert, I. (2024). Caring for Methods: “Care-Ful Method Practice” through Methodography. In Lydahl, D. & Mossfeldt Nickelsen, N.C. (eds.), Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas in Social Science Interventions: Careful Engagements in Healthcare, Museums, Design and Beyond. Cham: Springer, S. 171-186.
El Sherbini, A. N. & Lippert, I (2023). From Energy Poverty to Vulnerability: A
Discourse Analysis of the European Union’s National Energy and Climate Plans. In Herrejón, P. V., Lennon, B., & Dunphy, N (eds.), Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South, ed., Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies. London: Routledge.
Lippert, I. (2023). Numbers. In Maguire, J. & Winthereik, B. R. (eds.), Reclaiming Technology: a poetic-scientific vocabulary. Copenhagen: Ctrl+Alt+Delete Books.
Lippert, I. & Sareen, S. (2023). Alleviation of energy poverty through transitions to low-carbon energy infrastructure. Energy Research & Social Science, 100.
Sareen, S., Thomson, H., Tirado-Herrero, S., Gouveia, J. P., Lippert, I. & Lis, A. (2020). European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits. Global Transitions, 2.
Raasch, J. & Lippert, I. (2020). Game Changer ‘Helen Verran’. In Atkinson, P. A., Delamont, S., Hardy, M. A., Williams, M. (eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Methods. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
Lippert, I. (2018). On not muddling lunches and flights: Narrating a number, qualculation, and ontologising troubles. Science & Technology Studies, 31 (4).
Lippert, I. (2018). How do Environments Come to Matter? Science as Culture, 27 (2).