Controversial Practices: Tracing the Proceduralization of the IPCC in Time and Space

Abstract This paper starts from the premise that international practices are neither stable nor universal but in fact product of time and space. It analyzes processes formalization change using case Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an intergovernmental institution producing regular assessment state knowledge climate change. The IPCC is particularly interesting because numerous external internal controversies it has faced since its establishment 1988 institutional organizational changes they triggered. highlights potential as methodological occasions to observe situatedness trace over time. Controversies represent moments contention which normalizing universalistic effect routines procedures momentarily suspended, thus facilitating investigation particular space evolve.