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Denne undersøgelse beror på et casestudie af udviklingen og koordineringen i et omfattende civilt-kommunalt partnerskab kaldet »Tippen Syder«, der udgør en formel samarbejdsorganisering mellem en række centrale civilsamfunds- og kommunale aktører i København. Partnerskabet har siden dets etablering i 2008 stået for at koordinere og udføre naturpleje, formidling og aktiviteter på Sydhavnstippen, et større naturområde i byen ejet af Københavns Kommune og statens udviklingsselskab By & Havn. Med afsæt i den pragmatiske sociolog Laurent Thévenots engagementssociologi udfolder artiklen en integreret analyse og undersøgelse af, hvilke institutionelle og organisatoriske forhold der igennem partnerskabet rammesætter vilkårene for det civile engagement i udviklingen af området. Grundet dets særlige ejerskabsforhold inkarneret i udviklingsmodellen bag By & Havn har Sydhavnstippen som sted en længerevarende og endnu aktuel bypolitisk historik præget af modsatrettede interesser vedrørende områdets fremtidige brug. På den baggrund lægger vi vægt på at vise, at Thévenots analytiske ramme tillader os at integrere centrale intuitioner fra både kritiske bystydier og neo-institutionel teori i en mere omfattende forståelsesramme for de muligheder og udgrænsninger, situationen rummer for de civile aktørers engagement. Herunder argumenterer vi for, at pragmatisk bysociologi tydeliggør en praksisnær begrebsliggørelse af de forskellige niveauer af institutionelle imperativer, som former moralsk-politiske koordineringer i partnerskabet gennem varierende grader af asymmetri og udgrænsning. In this article, we explore through a case study the coordination in a longterm civic-municipal partnership developing the public urban green space Sydhavnstippen, a major recreational greenspace located in the Copenhagen, and owned by the Copenhagen City & Port Development Corporation. Since the partnership's establishment in 2008 key civic- and municipal actors have been collaborating on coordinating and carrying out voluntary nature conservation work, and other activities on the greenspace. Invoking Laurent Thévenots sociology of engagement we unfold an integrated analysis, highlighting how certain institutional and organizational settings frames the urbanpolitical space of civic engagement in the greenspace planning and development. Due to the special landownership embodied in the development model behind City & Port, Sydhavnstippen have long been a contested public urban greenspace characterized by urban-political tensions and ambiguities in regard to its future development. Following this, we argue that Thévenot analytical approach allow us to integrate key insights from both critical and neo-institutional theory, thereby contributing to a more comprehensive framework identifying what possibilities and bounds the situation accommodates for the civic engagements. Furthermore, we argue that pragmatic urban sociology contributes to a novel conceptualization of the different levels of institutional imperatives that shapes and binds the social coordination within the partnership through varying degrees of asymmetry and delimitation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Verdens storbyer har påkaldt sig stigende opmærksomhed som centre for lokal og global klimahandling og -politik over de seneste 15-20 år, og danske byer som København og Aarhus fremhæves gerne på den internationale scene for deres reduktionsresultater og fremadrettede klimaambitioner. Det sker på baggrund af en erkendelse af, at byerne som knudepunkter for industriøkonomisk vækst og højforbrugslivsstile står for godt 70 % af de globale drivhusgasudslip og derfor bærer et særligt ansvar for klimaproblemet. I denne artikel kaster vi lys over det forhold, at byerne qua deres sårbarhed over for klimarelaterede oversvømmelser og varmeøer, deres nærhed til borgerne og deres råderet over centrale infrastrukturer i energi, bolig og transport kan siges at stå med særlige muligheder for at drive en accelereret grøn omstilling. Med afsæt i egen forskning omkring klimatilpasningstiltag i København viser vi, at indsatser i retning af den klimavenlige og bæredygtige by er præget af en række dilemmaer, spændinger og kompromisser på tværs af samfundsinteresser og værdihensyn. Vores grundpointe er her, at sådanne dilemmaer og spændinger i høj grad medieres af en række by-professionelle grupper, og herunder særligt ingeniører, arkitekter og planlæggere, som spiller afgørende roller i udformningen og implementeringen af byers klimaindsatser. Det sker som forsøg på at forene hensyn, der hidrører fra henholdsvis en teknisk viden om mulige løsninger, borgernes ønsker og behov i byudviklingen og de juridiske, økonomiske og politiske rammer, som tiltagene foregår indenfor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The epochal concerns of global climate change challenge sociological habits of thought and call for a strengthened social-theoretical engagement. This article seeks to provide a selective overview of how the discipline of sociology turns climate issues into theoretical and empirical research; and it also attempts to offer a programmatic and future-oriented assessment of the main social-theoretical ruptures conjured in this work. In historical terms, these lines of engagement are located in environmental sociology, and the article provides a brief review of the main research programmes of this sub-field. It then analyzes how "the climate" is presently deployed as marker of wider cultural transformation in a series of ambitious projects of diagnosing the present. It focuses on the wide-ranging, but extensively different, theoretical assertions of Ulrich Beck, John Urry, Slavoj Žižek and Bruno Latour. In the latter part of the article, five socio-ontological axes are pinpointed, along which climate change invite renewed forms of sociological imagination and future empirical research: spatiality (globality); temporality (futurity); materiality (ecology); epistemic boundary-work (trans-disciplinarity); and public-ness (climatic citizenship). In a hopeful vein, the article concludes that climate change may contribute "positively" to sociology, by catalyzing the reinvention of the discipline in a cosmopolitan, more-than-social world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay raises questions about the contribution of sociology to bettering or dismantling its always less-than-satisfactory society. What happens if we stop viewing sociological theory and analysis as explanations of society, and start seeing them as additions to society, as narrative equipment for societal actors? And what consequences does such a performative perspective imply for the critical capacity of sociology? Drawing inspiration from actor-network theory (ANT), this essay suggests that the mundane symbolic products of sociology are co-constitutive for the continual (re)creation of "society". Texts, concepts, statistics, and analyses contribute to collecting and effectuating social groups. Interesting sociology gains attention from various publics by participating in critical dialogues. Rather than cool-headed distance, a critical proximity is called for, with sociologists engaging the critical moments of social life, while developing a "sociology of criticism" capable of respecting the critical capacities of social co-actors. Criticism is a practical endeavour, with various means of intervention available. This performative perspective suggests two important societal narratives for future sociological engagement are suggested: cosmopolitization of society and democratization of expertise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The epochal concerns of global climate change challenge sociological habits of thought and call for a .strengthened social-theoretical engagement This article seeks to provide a selective overview of how the discipline of sociology turns climate issues into theoretical and empirical research; and it also attempts to offer a programmatic and future-oriented assessment of the main social-theoretical ruptures conjured in this work. In historical terms, these lines of engagement are located in environmental sociology, and the article provides a brief review of the main research programmes of this sub-field. It then analyzes how "the climate*’ is presently deployed as marker of wider cultural transformation in a series of ambitious projects of diagnosing the present. It focuses on the wide-ranging, but extensively different, theoretical assertions of Ulrich Beck, John Urry, Slavoj Žižek and Bruno La tour. In the latter part of the article, five socio-ontological axes are pinpointed, along which climate change invite renewed forms of sociological imagination and future empirical research: spatialitv (globality); temporality (futurity); materiality (ecology); epistemic boundary-work (trans-disoplinarity); and publicness (climatic citizenship). In a hopeful vein, the article concludes that climate change may contribute "positively" to sociology, by catalyzing the reinvention of the discipline in a cosmopolitan, more-than-social world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]