The missing builders: craftwork and crafty resistance in the “eco-metropolis” of Copenhagen

IF 0.9 Q4 MANAGEMENT Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-02-16 DOI:10.1108/joe-03-2021-0013

Maia Ebsen

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PurposeThe paper ethnographically explores modes of urban resistance emerging in tandem with climate change mitigation programs in Copenhagen.Design/methodology/approachBuilding on 11 months of fieldwork with a Danish construction enterprise, the paper examines the politics of urban climate change mitigation programs through the lens of a group of builders' struggles to rethink and resolve dilemmas related to environmental concerns in construction and urban development.FindingsBased on an analysis of a specific construction project connected to a larger urban climate change mitigation program in Copenhagen, the paper shows how the builders deliberately move between different perspectives and positions as they navigate the shifting power relations of urban planning. The paper argues that this form of crafty resistance enables the builders to maneuver the political landscape of urban planning as they seek to appropriate the role of “urban planners” themselves.Originality/valueTaking up recent discussions of “resistance” in anthropology and cognate disciplines (e.g. Theodossopoulos, 2014; Bhungalia, 2020; Prasse-Freeman, 2020), the paper contributes an ethnographic analysis of struggles between diverging and, at times, competing modes of engagement in urban climate change mitigation programs and thus sheds light on how professional actors negotiate the ambiguity of “sustainability” in urban planning.

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缺失的建造者:哥本哈根“生态大都市”中的工艺和狡猾的抵抗

目的本文从人种学角度探讨了哥本哈根气候变化缓解项目中出现的城市抵抗模式。设计/方法/方法与丹麦一家建筑企业进行了11个月的实地调查，本文通过一群建筑商在重新思考和解决建筑和城市发展中与环境问题相关的困境的斗争，来审视城市气候变化缓解计划的政治性。发现基于对哥本哈根一个更大的城市气候变化缓解项目的具体建设项目的分析，该论文展示了建设者在驾驭城市规划不断变化的权力关系时，如何故意在不同的视角和立场之间移动。本文认为，这种巧妙的抵抗形式使建设者能够在寻求扮演“城市规划者”自己的角色时，操纵城市规划的政治景观。原创性/价值利用人类学和同源学科中最近对“抵抗”的讨论（例如，Theodossopoulos，2014；Bhungalia，2020；Prasse Freeman，2020），该论文对分歧与有时，参与城市气候变化缓解项目的竞争模式，从而揭示了专业行为者如何协商城市规划中“可持续性”的模糊性。

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Journal of Organizational Ethnography MANAGEMENT-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Organizational Ethnography (JOE) has been launched to provide an opportunity for scholars, from all social and management science disciplines, to publish over two issues: -high-quality articles from original ethnographic research that contribute to the current and future development of qualitative intellectual knowledge and understanding of the nature of public and private sector work, organization and management -review articles examining the history and development of the contribution of ethnography to qualitative research in social, organization and management studies -articles examining the intellectual, pedagogical and practical use-value of ethnography in organization and management research, management education and management practice, or which extend, critique or challenge past and current theoretical and empirical knowledge claims within one or more of these areas of interest -articles on ethnographically informed research relating to the concepts of organization and organizing in any other wider social and cultural contexts.