New Publication in the Social Enterprise Journal: Negotiating Responsibility in Climate Governance

We are pleased to share a new publication from CLIS-HSG: The article "Negotiating Responsibility in Climate Governance: Lost in Translation?" by Dino Darmonski has been published in the Social Enterprise Journal (Vol. 22, No. 2, 2026).

The paper is part of the special issue "Social Innovation and Participatory Governance: Ethical Pathways for Inclusive Development", edited by Aline Félix (University of Neuchâtel / HES-SO Lausanne) and Alexander Murdock (London South Bank University). The special issue brings together seven contributions examining how participatory governance can structure social innovation processes and what ethical questions arise in doing so.

Dino's article investigates the socio-technical dynamics of a digital participation initiative in municipal climate governance in Switzerland. Drawing on Actor-Network Theory (ANT), the paper analyses how responsibility is translated across the actors involved — and shows that despite systemic ambitions, responsibility tends to become individualised in practice. The article argues for governance designs that conceptualise responsibility as a shared, infrastructurally anchored task.

Darmonski, D. (2026). Negotiating responsibility in climate governance: Lost in translation? Social Enterprise Journal, 22(2), 351–369. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/SEJ-07-2025-0163