47.4 - Infrastructures and Ecology

Special Issue– Ruptures, Transformations, Continuities. Rethinking Infrastructures and Ecology. (Philipp Degens, Iris Hilbrich & Sarah Lenz)

• Philipp Degens, Iris Hilbrich & Sarah Lenz: Analyzing Infrastructures in the Anthropocene. [Introduction]

Contributions

• Sheila Jasanoff: Spaceship or Stewardship: Imaginaries of Sustainability in the Information Age. [abstract]
• Dominic Boyer: Infrastructural Futures in the Ecological Emergency: Gray, Green, and Revolutionary. [abstract]
• Simone Schiller-Merkens: Social Transformation through Prefiguration? A Multi-Political Approach of Prefiguring Alternative Infrastructures. [abstract]
• Cristina Besio, Nadine Arnold & Dzifa Ametowobla: Participatory Organizations as Infrastructures of Sustainability? The Case of Energy Cooperatives and Their Ways for Increasing Influence. [abstract]
• Giacomo Bazzani: Money Infrastructure for Solidarity and Sustainability. [abstract]
• Jonas van der Straeten: Sustainability’s “Other”: Coming to Terms with the Electric Rickshaw in Bangladesh. [abstract]
• Mathilda Rosengren: When Infrastructures and Ecological Actors Meet: Resituating “Green” Infrastructures through the History of the Willow Tree. [abstract]
• Bronislaw Szerszynski: Infrastructuring as a Planetary Phenomenon: Timescale Separation and Causal Closure in More-Than-Human Systems. [abstract]
• Stephen C. Slota & Elliott Hauser: Inverting Ecological Infrastructures: How Temporality Structures the Work of Sustainability. [abstract]
• Lisa Suckert & Timur Ergen: Contested Futures: Reimagining Energy Infrastructures in the First Oil Crisis. [abstract]
• Vincent Gengnagel & Katharina Zimmermann: The European Green Deal as a Moonshot – Caring for a Climate-Neutral Yet Prospering Continent? [abstract]
• Jonathan Symons & Simon Friederich: Tensions Within Energy Justice: When Global Energy Governance Amplifies Inequality. [abstract]

Epilogue

• Peter Wagner: Frontiers of Modernity: Infrastructures and Socio-Ecological Transformations. [abstract]

47.3 - Digital Transformation(s)

Special Issue– Digital Transformation(s): On the Entanglement of Long-Term Processes and Digital Social Change. (Stefanie Büchner, Jannis Hergesell & Jannis Kallinikos)

• Stefanie Büchner, Jannis Hergesell & Jannis Kallinikos: Digital Transformation(s): On the Entanglement of Long-Term Processes and Digital Social Change. An Introduction.

Contributions

• Ole Hanseth: When Stars Align. The Interactions and Transformations of e-Health Infrastructure Regimes. [abstract]
• Kathrin Braun, Cordula Kropp & Yana Boeva: From Digital Design to Data-Assets: Competing Visions, Policy Projects, and Emerging Arrangements of Value Creation in the Digital Transformation of Construction. [abstract]
• Cancan Wang & Jessamy Perriam: Murder Maps, Transport Apps, and Soup: How Expert Enthusiasts Move Open Government Data Initiatives between the UK and China. [abstract]
• Juliane Jarke, Irina Zakharova & Andreas Breiter: Organisational Data Work and Its Horizons of Sense: On the Importance of Considering the Temporalities and Topologies of Data Movement When Researching Digital Transformation(s). [abstract]
• Katharina Braunsmann, Korbinian Gall & Falk Justus Rahn: Discourse Strategies of Implementing Algorithmic Decision Support Systems: The Case of the Austrian Employment Service. [abstract]
• Alina Wandelt & Thomas Schmidt-Lux: Infinite Expansion, Unlimited Access, Encompassing Comfort. An Analysis of the Effects of Digitalization in Libraries after 1995. [abstract]
• Moritz von Stetten: Continuity and Change within the Digital Transformation of Psychotherapy. [abstract]
• Julia Katherina Mahnken: Digital Transformations in Drug-Related Crime: Figurations, Interdependencies, and Balances of Power. [abstract]
• Julia Binder & Ariane Sept: Debordered Materiality and Digital Biographies: Digital Transformation in Rural-Peripheral Areas. [abstract]
• İrem Özgören Kınlı & Onur Kınlı: The Turkish Ordeal – A Historical-Processual Analysis of the Perception and Engagement of Elderly People in the Digital Transformation. [abstract]

47.2 - Drifting Apart/Transforming Cities

HSR Forum – Drifting Apart: The Dissociation of States from International Cooperation and its Consequences. (Matthias Dembinski & Dirk Peters)

• Matthias Dembinski & Dirk Peters: Drifting Apart: Examining the Consequences of States’ Dissociation from International Cooperation – A Framework.

Contributions

• Frank Bösch & Daniel Walter: Iran’s Dissociation from Cooperation with the West between the 1960s and 1980s.
• Susanne Maslanka: The Withdrawal of the GDR from the Warsaw Pact – Expectations, Hopes, and Disappointments in German-Soviet Relations During the Dissociation Process.
• Mikhail Polianskii: The Perils of Ruxit: Russia’s Tension-Ridden Dissociation from the European Security Order.
• Sinan Chu: Dissociation via Alternative Institutions: The Establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and US-China Conflict.
• Dirk Peters: Brexit: The Perils of Dissociation by Negotiation.

HSR Forum – Transforming Cities, Negotiating Centrality: Markets and Civic Buildings in Comparative Perspective (XVth c. – XXth c.). (Colin Arnaud, Nora Lafi & Alessandra Ferrighi)

• Colin Arnaud, Alessandra Ferrighi & Nora Lafi: Transforming Cities, Negotiating Centrality: Markets and Civic Buildings in Comparative Perspective (XVth c. - XXth c.). An Introduction. [abstract]

Contributions

• Anna Paulina Orłowska & Patrycja Szwedo-Kielczewska: Infrastructure and Centrality in Town during Annual Fairs. Three Polish Examples (1385–1655). [abstract]
• Stefano D’Amico: The Governor, the Bishop, and the Patricians: The Contest for the Cathedral Square in Spanish Milan (1535–1706). [abstract]
• Margarida Relvão Calmeiro: From Boundary to New Centrality. The Transformation of the Santa Cruz Monastery to Accommodate the New Facilities of the Liberal State During the Nineteenth Century. [abstract]
• Beya Abidi-Belhadj: Transforming and Interpreting the Kasbah: The Negotiation of Centrality in Tunis. [abstract]

47.1 - Visibilities of Violence

Special Issue– Visibilities of Violence: Microscopic Studies of Violent Events and Beyond. (Thomas Hoebel, Jo Reichertz & René Tuma)

• Thomas Hoebel, Jo Reichertz & René Tuma: Visibilities of Violence. On Visual Violence Research and Current Methodological Challenges.

Contributions
I.  Facing Violence: Microscopic Studies with and without Audiovisual Data

• Anne Nassauer: Video Data Analysis as a Tool for Studying Escalation Processes: The Case of Police Use of Force.
• Christian Meyer & Ulrich v. Wedelstaedt: Opening the Black Box: An Ethnomethodological Approach for the Video-Based Analysis of Violence.
• Laura D. Keesman & Don Weenink: Feel it Coming: Situational Turning Points in Police-Civilian Encounters.
• Susanne Nef & Friederike Lorenz-Sinai: Multilateral Generation of Violence: On the Theorization of Microscopic Analyses and Empirically Grounded Theories of Violence.
• Frithjof Nungesser: Studying the Invisible. Experiences of Extreme Violence as a Methodological Challenge.

II.  Shifting Limitations: The Temporal Embedding and Unfolding of Violent Events

• Wolff-Michael Roth: The Emergence and Unfolding of Violent Events: A Transactional Approach.
• Jo Reichertz: Escalation of Violence in Unclear Situations – A Methodological Proposal for Video Analysis.
• Ekkehard Coenen & René Tuma: Contextural and Contextual – Introducing a Heuristic of Third Parties in Sequences of Violence.
• Thomas Hoebel: Emplotments of Violence. On Narrative Explanations and their Audiovisual Data.

III.  Challenging Research: Methodological, Theoretical and Ethical Problems of Analyzing Violence

• Thomas Alkemeyer: The Embodied Subjectivities of Videography.
• Gesa Lindemann, Jonas Barth & Johanna Fröhlich: The Methodological Relevance of a Theory-of-Society Perspective for the Empirical Analysis of Violence.
• César Antonio Cisneros Puebla: Microsociology of Killing in Mexican Video Executions.

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